I have removed both of the modules – I do not use the 3-button module or the trackpoint module. I tried using them, but I gave up on both.
And, it’s amazing that my tiny blog often shows up in web searches! Sometimes when I want to learn about a thing, I search for it and I find my own blog posts. lol
I do use arrow keys on the UHK, and one of the mods I did was to switch the arrow keys to vi arrow keys – hjkl – so I don’t have to translate between vi and “not vi.” My arrow keys are mod+[hjkl], so it’s a natural fit.
I made a few other changes too, and I find that I like my current setup.
Both the mod and space bar are mod keys if held, and space if touched. Both of the “case buttons” are space bars, so I can still have a repeating space if I want one. The top left key does escape if touched, ~ if shifted, and backtick if held for 0.2 seconds. This was the best I could think of, for a missing escape key. As a Unix user, I had to have a ‘press to escape’ and I still wanted shift-~, and 0.2 seconds is pretty short to get the `.
Another thing I did was to move around some of the other keys – if I kept hitting a chord to do a thing, I made that chord do that thing.
At this point, I really don’t like using a regular keyboard. I’m pretty attached to my UHK60. 