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I used Colemak, and I use unmodified vim bindings. Once you get used to it, it works just fine. I find that after the transition it starts to feel like I'm talk
by alwayslikethis 3y ago
I used Colemak, and I use unmodified vim bindings. Once you get used to it, it works just fine. I find that after the transition it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language, rather than muscle memory associations with commands. Instead of the three keys, I now think 'ciw' if I need to change this word, and it isn't any harder to type than on qwerty. On colemak hjkl are still all accessible by your right hand, so the change isn't that bad, even if unintuitive at first.
- epiccoleman 3y ago> it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language This is like, the whole _point_ of Vim to me - much less about muscle memory and more about mnemonic ways of interacting with text. `ciw` is "change inside word", `da{` is "delete a tag", `yat` is yank a tag, etc. t and f are "to" and "through" (I think "froo" for that one). vf; is "visually select thru the next semicolon" for example. The whole combination of motions and text objects is the real magic of Vim for me. Also the g ex command is pretty great too.
- 3np 3y agof: find
- epiccoleman 3y agoYes - but to me that doesn't capture the distinction between t and f as well (and with as much fun)
- eviks 3y agoWith more convenient keybinds you'd get the same associations, just with different keycaps/fingers (like cat would be cut a tag or xat could be aXe a tag), so it's not worth it using the bad defaults on account of this