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Vim and non qwerty keyboards? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone ever tried to use vim on a non qwerty layout? I've always been interested in colemak but having to possibly re-bind every single key for vim is daunting.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like others said, you can adapt to using most keybinds on colemak. I had a tough adapting to positional keybinds such as the home arrows. It just was in very weird places on colemak.

Eventually I started using Extend layer from BigBagTrix which provides many useful keys near home. It uses caps as a modifier but you could possibly add dual behavior for tap and hold to have backspace function if you want.

Now I am used to a mix of extend and vim bindings.