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Have any Vim users successfully switched from QWERTY to Dvorak? Did you relearn Vim muscle memory or remap keybindings for Dvorak (e.g. insert new line above is R rather than O)?
Mar 11 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadJack WinesMar 11
@sliminality Dvorak vim-binding user here. Knew Dvorak before vim so not exactly your case. hjkl are in really unintuitive places in dv. I swapped them to jkl;
Show threadAndre VidelaMar 11
@sliminality I tried and failed. I was using a plug-in that woudl replace all default shortcuts so that even after switching to dvorak they would remain in the same position on the keyboard, but that wasn't enough, I also had to remap all my custom keyboard manually and I couldn't find a nice way to do that automatically between switching different layouts
Show threadShae ErissonMar 11
@sliminality I switched to Dvorak before I learned emacs
Show threadpounce  Mar 12
@sliminality i switched to dvorak around the same time i started using vim, i use all default keybindings
hjkl are actually pretty intuitive on dvorak (jk are together, hl are left and right as they should be) and since most other verbs/movements are mnemonic, i don't think it matters
i think some things are actually nicer on dvorak, half-page movement (^D,^U) is more natural, which most blogs say _should_ be your default vertical movement method, and many verbs are on the home row since... they're based on english and dvorak is optimized for english
Show threadpounce  Mar 12
@sliminality anyway i might be in the minority here, but when i do modal editing i spell out my sentences in my head. I don't think about O as a location on the keyboard, i think of it as a verb. and i type it just like it'd type any other language on my keyboard—in dvorak
Show threadCF Bolz-TereickMar 12
@pounce @sliminality yeah, that's me too with Colemak. Took a while go get used to it, but vim wasn't the main factor. hjkl is super unintuitive there, but I always used arrow keys anyway 🤷‍♀️