[a_p]

As someone who uses a custom variant of the Dvorak layout, one thing about Vim that I find annoying is the that the navigation keys only make sense for a Qwerty keyboard. I know that it is easy to do a custom remap but nevertheless I find that it is harder to learn the commands when the keyboard shortcuts are no longer intuitive (e.g not using d for delete, etc.)

[beatgammit]

I'm in the same boat. I don't use hjkl for this very reason. I haven't remapped my keyboard because I'm constantly having to use a coworker's keyboard (most of which use Qwerty), and it's just easier to remember keys instead of positions on the keyboard. Everything works except HJKL...