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Dvorak is optimized for the English language, but my primary language isn't English. Qwerty is universal for languages with the Roman alphabet and I type with m

Dvorak is optimized for the English language, but my primary language isn't English. Qwerty is universal for languages with the Roman alphabet and I type with more than 120 words per minute, which is enough for me. I also feel pain every time I end up in front of another computer just for having mapped my Caps Lock to a Ctrl. But that's just one key and having to switch to a completely different keyboard layout is just too painful. Then there are the smart text editors, like Vim or Emacs, which have shortcuts optimized for Qwerty. Common shortcuts like `C-x C-f` or `C-x C-s` are no longer easy to type. So for each of those editors under your tool-belt, you have to reconfigure them. Yay, that's just what I want. Basically Qwerty wins because it is ubiquitous and because the alternatives aren't good enough.

wbolster 10y ago
you mistake speed as the dominant factor and then you claim you are fast enough so switching is not worth it, while you should instead focus on comfort. you will only fully realise this after experiencing pain. also, while vim hjkl navigation was designed for qwerty, emacs shortcuts are not. (for a vim + colemak alternative see the rationale for the layout i use: https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics#design-rationale https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics#design-ratio... )
- lgunsch 10y ago
  Interesting link! I type Colemak and pretty much gave up on Vim after trying to remap so many keys. This project didn't exist back when I gave up on learning Vim.
  - wbolster 10y ago
    that project did not exist since i switched to colemak only recently, and that made my evil-mode setup (vim editing on top of emacs) completely unusable for me, which is why i started this project. for a similar vim-based implementation (which served as inspiration for my remappings), see https://github.com/ohjames/colemak https://github.com/ohjames/colemak

wbolster 10y ago

you mistake speed as the dominant factor and then you claim you are fast enough so switching is not worth it, while you should instead focus on comfort. you will only fully realise this after experiencing pain. also, while vim hjkl navigation was designed for qwerty, emacs shortcuts are not. (for a vim + colemak alternative see the rationale for the layout i use: https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics#design-rationale https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics#design-ratio... )

lgunsch 10y ago
Interesting link! I type Colemak and pretty much gave up on Vim after trying to remap so many keys. This project didn't exist back when I gave up on learning Vim.
- wbolster 10y ago
  that project did not exist since i switched to colemak only recently, and that made my evil-mode setup (vim editing on top of emacs) completely unusable for me, which is why i started this project. for a similar vim-based implementation (which served as inspiration for my remappings), see https://github.com/ohjames/colemak https://github.com/ohjames/colemak