Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by jules on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:21AM
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I use Colemak. It's supposed to be easier to learn than Dvorak, and it leaves some keyboard shortcuts intact (e.g. ctrl+zxcv). There is a colemak.vim file that completely customizes vim for colemak. Warning: it changes nearly every single key binding.
The only downside to colemak is that d is next to t. This sometimes makes it difficult to type Dutch, because some words end with "dt". A typo "td" is easy to make.
Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by w1ntermute on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:14AM
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Funny that they're Swedish - Swedish is one of the few non-English languages for which there is a version of Dvorak - it's called Svorak.
Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by silentbicycle on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:16AM
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Yeah, I think there's a Danish Dvorak as well. Pretty useless for Japanese, Russian, or Arabic though. :)
My strategy of "heavily customized Emacs / Dvorak on my computers, standard Qwerty / vi otherwise" has been a good compromise over the years, incidentally.
Also, I work with Swedish hackers who remind me that Qwerty is only "standard" so far across the ocean. These things only make sense in a local context.