I use a Dvorak layout for more comfortable touch typing, along with some changes I made to the numeric row to make it more suited for programming. For the "nati

I use a Dvorak layout for more comfortable touch typing, along with some changes I made to the numeric row to make it more suited for programming. For the "native" letters I use a European keyboard and map the extra key to Compose, instead of using AltGr. This will require some substantial investment in retraining, though. (In Vim the cursor keys are a little weird because they are based on placement, but the rest is mostly OK as they are mnemonics). If you want to take the low effort route, I would just go for the US layout; on MacOS you can use the Option key to get the umlaut dead key. (On Windows, you would use the US International layout). Try this out for a while to see how often you really use the accented characters, compared to all the symbols used in programming; my guess is that you'll find it to be an insignificant bother.