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.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
