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user-inactivated  ·  3871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 5 Months After Switching to Colemak

sometimes I think about switching layouts, but I'm afraid of what it would do to my vimrc :<





capisce  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I decided to not mess with .vimrc but simply relearn all the shortcuts. It was painful at first but now it works great, I use vim just as productively as before, just pressing different physical keys. And I do consider myself a semi-proficient vim user. Of course, going back to using vim with a qwerty layout would probably be hell, whereas I can sort of manage normal text input with qwerty :)

user-inactivated  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

well what about hjkl and friends? I can't imagine that translated well

capisce  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had the same concerns at first, but then I read this and other posts like it and never looked back: http://sermoa.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/colemak-and-vim-but-w.../

user-inactivated  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Curiously enough, in Colemak h/j/k/l all end up on the same finger: the index finger of the right hand.

ooh, didn't think of that. this might go really well...

I think you've convinced me to give it a shot