For the uninitiated, !bang is a pretty great feature:
Bangs are recommended almost every time ddg comes up, and I see people like my brother using them, so it seems like nobody else minds and the choice of symbol will never change. Am I alone in thinking it's one of the worst possible prefix characters?
Try using your right pinky to press shift when typing a bang.
If you want to just use one hand, try holding shift with pinky and hitting 1 with your middle finger. Slightly less stretching.
That's the way I do it, and I'd have thought the only way to do it.... you assign fingers to keys, and if you need the shifted key, you use the other hand to press shift and the original designated finger to hit the key itself. The way GP describes it sounds painful.
Maybe it relates to hand pain and stuff
You could use right shift, also, though that’d be tricky for my brain
I do understand the thought though. After doing a few years on a mac and learning to love pushing cmd with my thumb, which was a lot of actions like cut copy paste and more, I began to hate if I had to use left pinky for anything ctrl related
Even on linux or windows today I’ll map ctrl directly left of spacebar so I can keep the same habit up
It’s naturally great for me in vim too, be it moving up and down the page with ^d and ^u or some custom ^ mapping, etc
I think if you're a heavy command line user or even programmer, you'll be having to do ! and ` and ~ and so on, meaning -- it's some pretty solid muscle memory
,⟨prefix⟩ for example