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by tourmalinetaco
1130 days ago
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> if Vim had the very same problem for US keyboard layouts it would have never become the standard choice for "hackers" Not necessarily, since it’d just be a matter of popularizing Vim + the community’s preferred shortcuts as a starter instead. > in general hackers hate when their tools don't work out of the box Indeed we do. However, we don’t give up on something if it doesn’t work. We simply hack at it until it works how we want ;) |
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There isn't that many software dev tools were a small variation in key bindings (or some similar small change) became ubiquious and propelled the popularity by adapting it to the local needs of American developers/IT (keyboard layout in this case), it's a chicken and egg problem because if Vim wasn't that popular there wouldn't be much interest in creation preferred shortcuts, so I conclude that what you suggested is not what would have happened.