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Re:Why Kakoune by lawn on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:45AM (#37599391)
If you do it, do it for comfort not speed.

And also consider Colemak-DH over Dvorak.

If you're worried about having to relearn Vim commands, it's not a big deal. You're not remembering the key positions but the mnemonics, so "dta" means "delete to a" not some key positions. You'll be fine.

Re:Why Kakoune by unshavedyak on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:22PM (#37599950)
> If you're worried about having to relearn Vim commands, it's not a big deal. You're not remembering the key positions but the mnemonics, so "dta" means "delete to a" not some key positions. You'll be fine.

Oh man, this was so difficult for me with a split ortho keyboard. I realized that most of my bindings now i don't actually "know". It's 100% muscle memory.

I had to keep a keyboard handy to "do the thing i want on the unplugged keyboard" to see what the bind was. Kinda mind blowing to me hah.

Re:Why Kakoune by lawn on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:27PM (#37600946)
That's interesting. I had zero problems moving from a regular qwerty layout to a split 34 key keyboard.

I did switch to a BEAKL layout, and then to my own layout.

So maybe we learn things differently?