Question: steno for programmers

[romgrk]

Hey,

I came across Art of Chording and I've been really interested in the subject. I have one lingering question though: as a programmer, I was wondering how one would enter things such as identifer names with different forms of casing (eg snake_case, lowerCamelCase, special characters, etc). And also I don't know how familiar you are with vim or other modal editors, but I was also wondering if in your experience it affects coding speed positively?

I'd be so grateful if you could reply summarily to these questions, I've been hesitant to order a steno keyboard for those reasons :/ If I may add, I might be interested in contributing through patreon or otherwise for a section on programming in Art of Chording.

Thanks!

[antistic]

I'm a beginner, but I have found a few resources:

• There are modes which you can assign to a stroke
• Plover supports full unicode
• People have contributed various steno dictionaries, including ones for Vim and terminal commands
• Typey type includes community lessons related to various programming languages such as Ruby
• @morinted who wrote this book is a programmer and there is a video of him walking through how he uses steno for programming fizzbuzz
• Mirabai Knight, who started Plover, also has a demo of her transcribing some of Plover's python source code
• The discord channel is pretty active and I'm sure everyone would be happy to answer any other questions you have

[morinted]

Those are excellent resources, thank you @ant-i-c-s

A late chapter on using stenography for programming is definitely in my plans, but I still need to get through the basics before that.

I just answered some questions on the hacker news thread, but I'll copy them here:

There are modes, like caps lock, but for snake case, camel case, and other things.

You can also do a stroke-by-stroke basis. For example, I have strokes for prefix "is" and "on" followed by a capital. So A*UN SMIT would be "onSubmit". You could also fall back to forcing an attached, uppercase word. So: ON KPA* SMIT

And thoughts on whether stenography is even useful for coding

[romgrk]

Great, thanks, that answers my questions :) Can't wait for that chapter then.