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Re:Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard by caseymarquis on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:21PM (#20869493)
Have you looked into the VSVim extension? It's a bit of extra effort to learn vim, but you'll never have to reach for the arrow keys again.

You'll also need to map your escape key to Caps Lock. You can use AutoHotkey for this with this script:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6t9sj3fygtre6h/AutoHotKey.ahk

Vim basically allows you to trade mental effort for hand movement. Over time, the mental effort goes away, but the saved movement lasts forever.

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Re:Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard by whitehouse3 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:59PM (#20869911)
vim is my default text editor. And there is a dip switch on my Leopold FC660C that swaps ESC and CAPSLOCK (it even ships with alternative key caps to match this change).

But VS has so many shortcut "chords" that depend on HJKL that I can't juggle both paradigms at once. When my brain is in "vim-mode", I'm constant hitting ESC -> ':' to trigger commands.

I had the same issue with Atom, Sublime, and VSCode extensions that mimic vim too.

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