They also use square brackets and curly braces more often than writers. That's not as amusing, for some reason.
It does feel like the semicolon doesn't deserve a position on home row anymore. I would demote it for a different letter or even the question mark. Actually I might try this on my Ergodox.
Sure, which is what the rules always say, and is fairly straightforward. The hard part is actually using it because it usually looks so out of place to me. It's a chicken and egg problem, where semicolons are hard to comfortably use because they are so rare they look out of place when I try, and I assume part of the reason for their rarity is other people feel the same way.
I use a similar trick for text expansion. All my abbreviations start with a semicolon (;). It’s on the home row, it never occurs at the start of a word in normal typing so I never have a false positive expansion, and it’s easy to remember.
Yes. And I really dislike that there is a difference. The semicolon is so small and what the block returns is so important, it's a really weird thing to love.
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