| Your story is similar to mine. I also use Colemak-DH. However, I sort of quit Qwerty cold turkey. I also used to touch type about 80 wpm on Qwerty, and because I didn't maintain it or practice while learning Colemak, I completely overwrote my muscle memory. Overall, the layout is more comfortable for me, but hard to justify especially if you rather not tamper with default keybindings. I'm also a vim keybinding user, but in Emacs evil-mode mostly. Vim keybindings are definitely made for qwerty, and to me not rebinding the keys just seemed insane. I ended up spending a weekend, reviewed all the keybindings I use, and ones I should probably use more, then wrote it all out [0]. I remapped a lot of keys back to their qwerty positions, but I also took the opportunity to make some changes that I thought would be more ergonomic. I also came up with me own mnemonic system for the re-mappings. For example: | function | before | after | new mnemonic | Commentary |
|-------------------+--------+-------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------|
| find file at pt | g f | g s | search file at pt | need to free up `g f' |
| find file.. w/ ln | g F | g S | search file.. etc | need to free up `g F' |
| end WORD | E | F | far WORD | foot/forward are other possible mnemonics |
| end WORD | g E | g F | far WORD rev | foot/forward are other possible mnemonics |
| end word | e | f | far word | |
| end word | g e | g f | far word rev | |
| find | f | s | search | right next to till :) |
| rev find | F | S | rev search | |
| visual mode | v | r | range | see note below |
| visual lines | V | R | range lines | |
| visual block | C-v | C-r | range block | |
| visual restore | g v | g r | range restore | |
| replace | r | v | revise | convert is another possible mnemonic |
| replace mode | R | V | revise mode | |
| goto mk | ` | j | jump | easier to reach and now mnemonic |
| goto mk ln | ' | J | jump to line | same key as j now, which makes sense to me |
Here is a minimal vim config [1] that I use if I find myself wanting to use (neo)vim. My evil-mode config [2] in Emacs. Remapping `less` keys [3].[0] https://github.com/willbush/system/tree/main/configs/keyboar... [1] https://github.com/willbush/system/blob/main/configs/nvim/in... [2] https://github.com/willbush/system/blob/82253534b92f3ab87d8e... [3] https://github.com/willbush/system/blob/82253534b92f3ab87d8e... |