Review of unique starter/ender strokes

[user202729]

I use a lot of separate "namespaces" (a part of the stroke). Initially it seemed like a good idea, and this is a review.

• First, if there's a namespace, the amount of representable information in a stroke is limited, so it requires more arbitrary memorization.
• The right hand side is heavily overloaded, it's hard to find an unused suffix stroke.
• For "systematic" scopes (Greek characters, bold, etc.) it's preferable to have namespaces, so you only need to remember the namespacing stroke part.
• Alternatively, for things that have some correspondence, namespacing is better (for example → / \rightarrow, ⟹ / \implies, ⟺ / \iff)
• Otherwise, it might not be preferable (it's possible to forget the namespace/make mistakes between namespaces while stroking, and it's still arbitrary memorization)
• It may be desirable to separate the "safe" strokes from the "dangerous" strokes (for example kill some application/close current window), so if you forget the stroke for the safe one you wouldn't guess and accidentally stroke the dangerous one.
• Make sure it's comfortable (refer to -FRLG), and doesn't have any conflict (for now there isn't any tool to check, so you mostly have to try out all combinations. For 26 combinations it's acceptable. Especially the combinations with vowels)

Design it properly at first, because once you started learning something, it sticks and it's really hard to switch to another system later.

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This is the complete list of my stroke namespaces, if anyone is interested.

Complete list

• SNR-: window manager command/run common programs
• SNRO-: open (common) file
• PLO-: Plover commands (default)
• VM-: Vim command (taken inspiration from the vim dictionary)
• -BLG: IPA symbols
• *RNL: Greek characters, lowercase
• *RNLT: Greek characters, uppercase
• GR-: LaTeX environment
• NK-: Unicode characters
• NKOO-: LaTeX commands
• *RS: bold character
• *RPS: bold uppercase characters
• *RLG: double-struck characters
• FROI-: C++ snippets
• -RPLT: prepend-fingerspell
• -RPGS: append-fingerspell
• -FRLG: single stroke commands (actually this one is particularly hard to stroke)

Conflicts:

• *RS makes *ERS and O*RS unavailable
• ARPLT conflicts with "apartment" in main.json