On Jun 24, 10:02 pm, Keith Kaple <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Good idea.  Why didn't I think of that?


>
> 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.)
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