Ask HN: Vim/Emacs users, how do you deal with non-qwerty layouts?

Re:Ask HN: Vim/Emacs users, how do you deal with non-qwerty ... by joncol on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:18AM (#13300032)

I use the Colemak layout since a couple of weeks back. I'm also using Emacs with Evil mode (i.e. Vim bindings). I have thought about remapping "hjkl" for navigation, but haven't yet done it. Using the Colemak "hjkl" is not completely unnatural, but the habit of the qwerty positions for these characters is pretty deeply rooted.

So no remappings so far.

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Re:Ask HN: Vim/Emacs users, how do you deal with non-qwerty ... by Lio on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:24AM (#13373443)

I've been a Colemak Vim user for several years now (5+? Can't remember).

When I started out I remapped the movement keys to give a more qwerty like layout. Eventually I decided to revert back to the standard Colemak layout.

The main reason was that I use vi movement keys everywhere that I can and whilst it was possible to remap hjkl in the shell (readline based apps can be remapped via ~/.inputrc) it's IMHO easier to adapt to the standard Colemak placement, then they'll work everywhere you do.

One thing that I do remap is <C-e> which is on home row, to provide a better ':'

map <C-e> : imap <C-e> <esc>:

If you remap anything in Vim you should know what you're loosing. In this case default <C-e> scrolls the screen down by 1 line and I think I can live without that to get to command mode quickly. It makes :w so fast especially when combined with Caps mapped to control and <C-m> as an alternative to the return key (provided as standard by the terminal)

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