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Comment by ajmarsh | Hacker News Reader

Love that tiny keyboard, but where is the space bar?

Bottom row. On mine I have space left of centre and enter right of centre. Its a full keyboard, you use the next two outwards on the bottom row to shift layers for access to all the punctuation. They actually very ergonomic. See olkb.com for more on the original.

Just looked more closely at the photo. That is a pretty unorthodox layout for a 40% keyboard! (having a number row on the default layer)

Certainly missing other often used keys, like colon, semicolon, comma, quotes, /, ?, <, >. Guessing he must have some way of dealing with all that.

Higher res picture of the keyboard: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caa4adb92441b...

This style of keyboard is called "40%" and, just as you would press shift+1 to input an exclamation mark, they're invariably set up with additional modifier keys (or chorded sequences) to input the values of all the missing keys.

It's hard to say exactly how this one is configured, because it looks like a custom layout. The kit can be found here: https://5z6p.com/products/plaid-through-hole/

The keys chosen in the primary layout in your link seem much more sensible to me. Trying to imagine what vim is like on the OP's keyboard :)

Small keyboards like this one have programmed layers. You use a key combo to switch between layers, which changes what the keys do.

It's a planck style keyboard, you can find out more here https://olkb.com/planck

It's certainly not using that layout. There is no space key on the default layer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caa4adb92441b...

Many crucial keys are missing. That does not look functional.

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