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Stenography for Coding


Has anyone here used stenography for writing code. Maybe even just a chorded setup. I'm curious if it's been done and if was worth the learning curve.

  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
On the software side, obviously there's Copilot, IntelliSense, etc., but Emmet's also been a while for a long time: https://emmet.io/ Many of them can be triggered in an IDE using key combinations (highlight text, surround with tag, for example)

Or Live Templates for IntelliJ: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-live-templates.htm...

👤 thephyber
Charachorder One[1] keyboard uses 10 joysticks instead of 120+ keys. Instead of building words by typing characters serially, the typist moves each joystick into a position then a software layer offers word completion.

Apparently the same company also offers the word completion layer on top of a more traditional keyboard.

I have a friend who has been training his brain for this keyboard, but don’t know about his progress.

[1] https://www.charachorder.com/

👤 ffhhj
That would require gesture detection? I don't know of a code editor that implements that. Also modern editors will do code completion fast enough, that is more precise.

I spend more time thinking about code than typing, so I've never need it.