• @Araozu
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    11 year ago

    Huh, I thought most keybindings where tied to the position of the keys, being vim “motions”, as in how you move your fingers or something like that.

    Maybe there are vim layouts for dvorak that I can use? Because I think I’d prefer to have the keybindings in the same place.

    I use a dvorak-based layout personally, but spanish QWERTY at work. Some time ago I learned EMACS with qwerty, so when I switched to dvorak my muscle memory was ruined, even if I knew the keybindings. I wonder if it’s worth it learning 2 keybindings to be able to switch layouts

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Not really key position based, they’re mostly things that match the letters like (i)nsert (a)fter (A)fter the whole line (d)elete (dd)elete a line ©hange ©hange rest of line.

      Then the fancier ones like ct ©hange(t)o which will remove the text from the cursor to the next character you hit. i.e. go to the open quote of a string, ct" replaces everything up to the end quote.

      ©hange(a)(w)ord will replace a word, ©hange(a)(p)aragraph will replace a whole block… putting a number in front of the command will repeat it like 5dd to delete 5 lines.

      I agree the muscle memory is a big thing but I use vim on both Dvorak and QWERTY (when I happen to be on site and not wanting to mess with changing keyboard layouts) and while I’m slower, it’s just the ordinary slowness that comes with not using QWERTY very often these days. I think of the commands as being the letters, not their positions.

      More to the point would be that if you’re already an EMACS user maybe learning vim is not that important? Though it does tend to be more common to find some sort of vi on even minimal hardware than to find EMACS.

      Strangely I use QWERTY on my phone and would find Dvorak odd for this purpose.

      Edit: looks like ( c ) got turned into the copyright symbol thanks to some overeager parser