I just realized that, if your main coding PC has a document scanner and OCR software, like a cheap flatbed and Tesseract for example, then you could, at least in theory, use a manual in your favorite hideaway as the ultimate distraction-free code authoring tool.

If your typewriter doesn't have a delete key, then take along a typewriter eraser and a writing correction tape.

And if your typewriter has the keys your coding language uses. Oops. Using my '54 Royal QDL for math expressions and HTML just got more challenging.

@arielmt you'll have to resort to digraphs; maybe ¢( for < and ¢) for > or smth?

@atax1a Or trigraphs if I need to get really creative, I suppose. That sounds doable and, importantly, much lower effort than the zero/oscar and one/lima substitutions the typeface and keyboard force on me.

@arielmt we're surprised you didn't try and track down a Dvorak typewriter

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@atax1a Sadly, I _did_ try. The only one I ever found for sale was a one-hand variant. It was reasonably priced, but I had to pass because I only touch type the standard and classic variants. :<

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