Welcome! I would highly recommend not remapping. Get used to not moving your right hand, but just poking h with you index finger without moving the other fingers from kl;. In a short while, you'll even forget which key moves where because you will be so conditioned to the strokes without even thinking. Remapping will set you up for other issues that will be annoying forever IMO.
Keith On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:16:55PM -0700, gary_p wrote: > > I'm trying vim after years of struggling with emacs and the awful > layout of standard keyboards. Back in the 80's I was lightning fast > with emacs. But then the PC came around, and I've been tying my > fingers in knots ever since. > > So: the first thing I notice about vim is that my right hand is not in > home position in control mode. I have to move my hand over one key to > get to hjkl. So now when I try to hit "i", my middle finger > instinctively shoots up, and I hit "u" instead. Wha... it seems like > such a goof-ball thing to have to do: move your hand back and forth by > *one key*. > > Am I the only one who has this problem? Is there a way (how, please, > in newbie language) to remap hjkl to jkl; ? What problems will that > buy? I presume most people just learn how to shift the hand back and > forth by one key. > > If I stick with vim, I'll swap esc and caps-lock. (Whoever put caps- > lock in prime real estate should be imprisoned.) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
