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If your middle and ring fingers are not strong enough to push the buttons, you need a better keyboard. In all seriousness, though, I personally don't like havi
by pyrhho 16y ago
If your middle and ring fingers are not strong enough to push the buttons, you need a better keyboard.
In all seriousness, though, I personally don't like having to reach with my index finger to move left. I tend to think of 'jkl;' as being a more efficient set of arrow-keys. (Where, with the arrow keys, your index finger goes left, ring-finger goes right, and middle finger goes up-down).
If you can hack it with 'hjkl' more power to you, but I found it extremely annoying to have to 'reset' my hand position every time I wanted to type text in insert mode.
- lelele 16y ago> but I found it extremely annoying to have to 'reset' my hand position every time I wanted to type text in insert mode. What do you mean, please? Do you mean you were resting your right finger over H?
- pyrhho 16y agoYeah, I kept finding myself trying to use 'hjkl' like arrow keys, then when I went into insert mode I would have to move my hand back (and lose my train of thought). Basically, 'jkl;' feels more intuitive to me. Hardcore vim users will probably be aghast at remapping something as basic as cursor movement and say that I should "learn to do it right". But it makes more sense to me, and I haven't found it to be any less efficient.
- lelele 16y agoI understand now. I've read about people remapping them as JKIL too. I guess the cause is the same.
- BrandonM 16y ago> I found it extremely annoying to have to 'reset' my hand position every time I wanted to type text in insert mode. Did you not consider keeping your hand in the standard place? I very rarely use h, and when I do it is a simple moment of the index finger. Backspace has nearly the same functionality as h, and movement keys like b, ^, and I (enter insert mode at the beginning of the line) are typically much more useful.