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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by stephth on Sunday July 31, 2011 @04:35PM (#2829498)
What about layouts - has anyone tried to work with alternatives to the typical QWERTY-based?
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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by jarin on Sunday July 31, 2011 @04:51PM (#2829540)
A really good programmer who used to work for me swears by Dvorak layout. Which is even stranger because he's a vim user.
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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by stephth on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:38PM (#2830297)
Why is that strange?
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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by jarin on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:52PM (#2833789)
Well I mean see if navigating via hjkl makes much sense on a Dvorak layout.
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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by stephth on Monday August 01, 2011 @03:29PM (#2833966)
Right. That has got to be configurable though... And I thought I read you could use the arrow keys too anyway.
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Re:What are good keyboards for programming? by jarin on Monday August 01, 2011 @05:50PM (#2834672)
It's configurable, but then you have to map the keys you just replaced, and so on. He uses it with the default keymappings.

Arrow keys are kind of discouraged in vim, because a lot of the combo moves (e.g. 10j, y5l, etc.) use hjkl.

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