I've been using dvorak for ~10 years now. Relearning the shortcuts is a huge pain in the butt since shortcuts are qwerty oriented (x,c,v are in a row for exampl

I've been using dvorak for ~10 years now. Relearning the shortcuts is a huge pain in the butt since shortcuts are qwerty oriented (x,c,v are in a row for example). In OS X there is a dvorak mode where the command key will swap the keyboard back into qwerty while the cmd key is pressed which will help the transition. I think there are similar 'remapping' settings for vim/emacs, but I've always just remembered the proper keys to hit. If you're doing a lot of c-like coding, the default '[',']' position may frustrate you. In short you need to decide if the effort is worth it and analyze what you're actually writing- code or english.