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by danpalmer 1710 days ago
Feature request: different controls for those without a QWERTY keyboard.
3 comments

Let's just go with h, l, k and j - we are developers after all :)
nice thing about hjkl is that by pure luck it still has good placement on Dvorak.
I happen to use Dvorak, so you must be kidding?
No. I also use Dvorak + Vim and I'm happy with the hjkl placement. Sure they're not all adjacent, but there's enough symmetry that I've never found it annoying.
Mate, that's still a ways away from being 'good'. For one thing, I'm constantly recording macros in vim when I mean to scroll down.
Even with a QWERTY keyboard it's irritating to be ambushed by a bugger and have to use the mouse (or many tabs) to select an action - please at least put the browser's focus on the first option!
I don't know, even as a dvorak user. I think it may add to the horror.