It’s much easier than reaching for the arrow keys, page up/dn keys, backspace and there’s no analog to transpose. Even when doing normal typing I constantly use these commands to do light editing to text. I use these commands like it’s second nature. Control- l - recenter caret to center of page.Control- k - delete from caret to end of line. ![]() Control (shift to select) - e - move caret end of line.Control (shift to select) - a - move caret beginning of line.Control (shift to select) - p - move caret one line up.Control (shift to select) - n - move caret one line down.Control (shift to select) - b - move caret left.Control (shift to select) - f - move caret right.Even though prefer using vim bindings, I utilize a number of emacs shortcuts when I type. I even found an application that made control back into caps lock! Shortcuts I’ve found a few applications where I can type in textboxes fine, but keyboard shortcuts work like QWERTY. Some applications don’t seem to respect the layout I’ve setup in the Region and Language settings. So when I’m in Windows I can type english in Colemak and just live with that… almost. Using a hangul layout + IME with a colemak layout transformation requires writing my own keyboard layout (including all sublayers!). Using multiple IMEs it’s incredibly difficult. Switching to another layout on the fly is difficult (it’s a simple keypress in macOS). I’ve managed to get Colemak working fine, that’s easy. Setting this up in Windows is impossible. I also have caps lock remapped to control, pause to escape, HL (h and l typed together) to escape and I have application specific hotkeys all over the place. Telex is a special case that shouldn’t care where your keys are (Windows cares though…) To complicate this all even more, I learned a re-arranged hangul layout that matches the transformation of QWERTY->colemak in terms of key placement. When writing in German I usually switch to Neo as well. I also type with dvorak programmer, and of course with QWERTY occasionally. I also switche to japanese study occasionally, which means using a japanese IME. So this means using Telex and a hangul layout with a korean IME. I’m particularly keen on studying vietnamese and korean. It’s one of the most efficient layouts with the fewest keys moved. I type with a keyboard layout called Colemak. I did learn about Hitfilm, which is a pretty decent program. No video this week because I couldn’t figure out a sensible screen capture and editing workflow that let me work to my normal standard of quality (which isn’t even that great anyway!). Don’t let that stop you from making suggestions. ![]() If you have suggestions to improve my Windows experience and that would be wonderful, but there’s a very high likelihood that I have already tried. (There’s some more serious Cakewalk-related reasons though). It is my computer and these are the things that bother me about using Windows, and some reasons why this Cakewalk review will be cut short. Many of these reasons may not apply to you, and that’s okay. I’m explaining why I dislike using Windows. I get questions fairly frequently about why, and the reasons require their own post. Anyone that reads this knows that I hate Microsoft Windows.
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