I am willing to start using the US layout on all my computers for some reasons such as:
- Being more 'universal', it will be for sure available in all computers.
- Being better for programming than the Spanish layout, because it has most useful symbols in better places, like []{}'"/ and so on.
- Being it impossible to program in vim out of the box on any computer without remapping all keys (in the Spanish one).
I am now on my macbook and found very satisfying to use two layouts I found:
- US (for programming)
- US - International - PC (for typing in Spanish, thanks to the dead keys)
BUT, I found two big problems:
- There are some differences between OS X versions of these layouts and the PC versions.
- The apple version has some weird keys (related to above). For example, left to the "1" key, there is this symbol -> "§". And I can not find a layout in my settings which has the typical "~" symbol, indeed I cannot even find that symbol!, only this one "˜".
I guess that some of these problems are related to the fact that typical US keyboards have large shift key and short enter key, whereas Spanish one has the opposite, having "`" key next to "z" and "\" in the middle line.
So my question is, what should I do to have an standard US layout in all my computers? Should I just stick to the PC version and make a custom layout on my apple laptop?