Thanks for writing this—just a couple of days ago I thought it might be a good idea to get food pedals.
Since you use Karabiner, have you considered using goku to create “complex modifications”? It might help you make your keyboard more ergonomic and hence ease your wrist pain. I personally like to use the spacebar as a modifier key, and control the arrow keys with spacebar-j / k / l / i. You can also set spacebar-a / s / d / f to delete letter/word forward/backward. I actually have hundreds of modifications, but these are amongst the most useful.
Also, you may already know this, but just in case: on Gmail, you can enable ‘auto-advance’ under preferences/advanced, and then use ‘e’ instead of ‘[’, which is easier to reach on the keyboard (so perhaps that pedal is best used for some other function).
Thanks for writing this—just a couple of days ago I thought it might be a good idea to get food pedals.
Since you use Karabiner, have you considered using goku to create “complex modifications”? It might help you make your keyboard more ergonomic and hence ease your wrist pain. I personally like to use the spacebar as a modifier key, and control the arrow keys with spacebar-j / k / l / i. You can also set spacebar-a / s / d / f to delete letter/word forward/backward. I actually have hundreds of modifications, but these are amongst the most useful.
Also, you may already know this, but just in case: on Gmail, you can enable ‘auto-advance’ under preferences/advanced, and then use ‘e’ instead of ‘[’, which is easier to reach on the keyboard (so perhaps that pedal is best used for some other function).