well i'm actually also currently exploring a NUMBER_TOKEN key layout which i'll be doing another video on as well so uh we're not done yet on uh on taking keys away so how much effort is it actually to live with a NUMBER_TOKEN key layout as a daily driver it was surprisingly little you know i was quite pleased with the sort of the simpler form with the thumb you know you haven't got to worry about which thumb i often did find myself kind of using the wrong thumb key it's a little bit confusing especially if you're working with layers uh you know just reducing that down to two makes it simpler you know you've got your home thumb position and then another one doesn't you haven't got to remember which way you're going for that other one it's just the other key so from your home position on the thumbs and you've got one more key and that is really appealing so basically i'm using this layout with my mac and the ipad and i'm mainly programming in vim with it so i'm not going to get too detailed onto vim here i want to keep this kind of useful for everybody but i will do more detail in another video on vm at some stage so firstly the layout i'm using uh for the actual keys is isrt so i switched to that soon after going down the colmac route and it seems like a very logical progression from colmac now it was very easy to pick up after learning colmac but definitely offers loads of advantages for me at least over colmax so i was very pleased to to have gone down that road so with my NUMBER_TOKEN kilo i managed actually without using home run mods the few times i tried home run mode so i had all kinds of issues you know it was it was triggering the shift version on when i was rolling and i was i was firing the keyboard shortcuts just as i was typing and that was because of the roll effect when you type you often overlap so you haven't released the first key by the time you hit the second one and if you don't set up home row mods in the right way then that causes all kinds of chaos so because of that reason i'd actually shied away from them but with a NUMBER_TOKEN key now i'm kind of forced to confront this and and jump in because uh without that i think it would be a real effort so with this layout i'm keeping a dedicated shift key and that solves one of the big issues i had with the home row mods in that you know when you use shift in fast typing to make the first first letter of a word capital you actually often roll from shift to the letter in exactly the same way you would roll if you were just typing that the original letter on the home row and then the next letter so there's really no way the keyboard can tell if you're shifting or just rolling between the two characters so by keeping the shift key separate we're not putting shift on the home run mods that actually just solves that problem now i'm also taking that principle and using it with the control key because when i'm using vim i'm often holding down control key and it's one of these few times when i'm actually left holding a key down to use as a modifier so i'm
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