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I've been trying out vim for a while, hoping to get more productive, but the fact that "hjkl" is not "jkl;" -home keys- and that I have to reach all the way acr

• TheCoreh 12y ago
  You can map Caps Lock to esc. A lot of people who use Vim do that.
• grmarcil 12y ago
  You can also remap Esc to jj by adding the following to your vimrc inoremap jj <Esc> The hjkl thing feels weird for a long time but it becomes natural after a while. I used Sublime for a long time with the Vintage plugin (vim like movements and some other vim features) before moving to Vim and that made the transition much easier for me. I still like Sublime, but Vim's full integration with the terminal environment is hard to beat.
• Dewie 12y ago
  > but the fact that "hjkl" is not "jkl;" -home keys- On American keyboards, anyway. That isn't how the keys are laid out on modern Dutch keyboards, though I don't know what they were like when Vim was created.
  • dunham 12y ago
    Vim inherited the keyboard mapping from vi. vi was designed on a QWERTY (American) keyboard, but the particular terminal that the author used had arrows printed on the hjkl keycaps. More information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
• benrhughes 12y ago
  Out of the box, ctrl-[ is mapped to escape. It took me about a week to un-learn Esc, but it is one of the better vim decisions I've made (along with mapping j to gj and k to gk, and mapping tab to :bnext).