Dygma Raise Keyboard Reflections Part 1

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I have played classical guitar some 20 years and now that I look at that picture I realize something regarding the hotkeys I tend to use. Like playing the guitar one has different functions for the left hand and for the right hand: left hand fingers press the strings in various positions on the guitar neck, and right hand fingers pick the strings. The same way I tend to use my keyboard: I press some combination of the Shift, Ctrl, Alt and CapsLock (remember: my CapsLock is the Alt-Gr key) with my left hand fingers, and then I click some key on the right side of the keyboard with my right hand fingers. Therefore I configured my new Dygma Raise so that I have all relevant modifiers in the lefthand side four thumb keys: Alt, Shift, Ctrl and Shift-to-1. Some examples of how I use these combinations may shed some light to the importance of these new left hand side thumb keys. I program Clojure and I use either IntelliJ IDEA with excellent Cursive plugin or Emacs editor with Cider plugin (mostly IDEA/Cursive, though). In Clojure you program quite a lot with REPL and to make the Clojure programming workflow fluent one needs good hotkeys e.g. to reload stuff into the REPL, send namespace to the REPL for evaluation, evaluate certain S-expression in the Clojure code or edit the code, e.g. kill S-expression, slurp/barf, etc. I’m not going to explain the meaning of those manipulations but let’s just say that I do a lot of them when programming Clojure and there needs to be fast hotkeys for them. Some examples of those hotkeys:

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