Perspective, If Not Expertise

I was pretty sure that I’d arrived at my per­fect key­board lay­out, but tonight I dis­cov­ered one more char­ac­ter to which I’d like to have easy access. This ver­sion of the lay­out moves the pre-algebra style divi­sion sym­bol to the pre­vi­ous loca­tion of the upside down ques­tion mark, while the upside down ques­tion mark moves …

This is an object les­son in the flex­i­bil­ity pro­vided by two prin­ci­ples of Unix-like oper­at­ing sys­tems: 1. Every­thing is a file. 2. Almost every file is human-readable text. Most impor­tant to this project was a corol­lary to the sec­ond point: that which can be read can be edited. Search­ing Google for “Dvo­rak inter­na­tional lay­out” resulted in …