all of Vim is just a bunch of muscle memory, to one degree or another, and i think you're overstating the intuitiveness/stubborness of the navigational keys. i

all of Vim is just a bunch of muscle memory, to one degree or another, and i think you're overstating the intuitiveness/stubborness of the navigational keys. i use Programmer Dvorak and i've never messed with any navigation bindings, and i don't have a problem navigating. (hjkl -> jcvp. not even on the same hand, though it does have some incidental "intuitiveness") more importantly though, is you should almost never use hjkl in the first place. these are the commands you should be using: b B w W e E ge gE H M L I A $ ^ 0 % { } [[ ]] [] ][ t<char> T<char> f<char> F<char> ; , /<chars> (search counts as a movement command, d/foo<enter> will delete everything to foo) probably the commands i use the most are w b and { }