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What has always kept me from learning Vim is my non-English keyboard layout. Many of the default key combinations are impossible or require some serious finger
by mimimi31 6y ago
What has always kept me from learning Vim is my non-English keyboard layout. Many of the default key combinations are impossible or require some serious finger acrobatics.
Sure, I could try figuring out a new set of easily reachable and non-conflicting keybindings for my own machines, but much of my motivation for learning it in the first place was being able to work on remote machines more comfortably.
- jgwil2 6y agoInteresting point, and a good reminder of how anglocentric the computing world is in some ways. Do localized IDEs typically take this into consideration?
- insertnickname 6y agoTry out a US* QWERTY keyboard for a few months. I grew up with non-English keyboards, but then some years ago I got stuck with a US keyboard for half a year, and after that I didn't want to go back. I can easily type the few non-English characters I need with the X.org compose key, so I can easily write in my native language. I assume it would work equally well for any language using a Latin-script alphabet. *) US, not UK. UK QWERTY is trash.