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Offline Bashe

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Looking for 70% keyboards
« on: Sun, 22 August 2021, 05:15:26 »
Hi I own a Reddragon K530 wireless 60% as my first mechanical keyboard but I have realized as a developer I need del, home, end buttons separately to use the IDE shortcuts. For instance, I can duplicate a row with alt + shift + down arrow but with 60% it becomes alt + shift + fn + down arrow which makes things hard.

I am looking for a not-very-common wireless 70% which has these additional buttons but is still as small as possible. I have found Reddragon K599 which looks really what I am looking for layout-wise (no F1-12 but has del, home, end pd, pu) but I am looking for other options. I can try to build it myself but I have no experience and I cannot go above 150 eur.

Offline Leslieann

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Re: Looking for 70% keyboards
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 22 August 2021, 21:03:33 »
If you don't need pageup/pagedn you can use a 65% and just remap the keys*, it's what I do and there's tons more 65% than 70% or even 75%.

*Many better boards have a tool to do so or use QMK or VIA but some cheaper boards have nothing and you will need to use something like Autohotkey. Autohotkey looks intimidating but start with basics, just swapping keys, later you can get into scripting it so it changes depending on what programs are running. I used to use it to swap pgeup/page/dn and then used a script so when it detected a game it disabled my winkey.
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