I use dvorak and I can agree that there are at least a few popular chords that are inconvenient, like Cx Cf. But I've gotten used to this and haven't changed an

I use dvorak and I can agree that there are at least a few popular chords that are inconvenient, like Cx Cf. But I've gotten used to this and haven't changed any core key bindings. And, of course, the upside is that on any random machine with emacs is 100% compatible. Oh, and one more tip :-): bind 'vim' to 'emacs -nw -Q' which loads emacs really fast (without requiring the daemon to be running).