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> and two, you can use it for escape as well: Ctrl-[

Sadly, not (sanely) with a Norwegian keyboard layout. We "only" have one key left of z, namely "<" (and with shift ">") -- and not really any keys right of "l" and "p" -- right home-row is "jklø" followed by "æ", and "å" is right of "p".

Way out in the cold by the enter key we have "'" (shift for "*"), and the not-so-useful composing '"' (and "^~" with shift/alt-gr respectively).

If only we could stick to something like romaji'zed Japaneze, we'd have plenty of keys left over! ;-)

You know, I've heard a lot of people go this route, and they like it a lot.

I tried it for a couple of days, maybe not long enough, and I guess a lot of this comes down to feel, which comes down to previous typing experience and personal preference, which seems that it may be highly personal (though I don't have data to back that up).

I do the same, and caps lock as control works great. After speaking with a colleague of mine who has worked with Unix from way back before my time, I learned to do this. This was actually where the control key was on old keyboards -- http://i.imgur.com/MyL0F8q.jpg