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I’ve been using vim with Dvorak for close to a decade now and it’s completely fine. J and K are where C and V are on QWERTY and it works great, I’ve even heard people say they like it more than where they’re supposed to be.
H is one to the left of where it is on QWERTY, but L is in the far top left, it’s my least favorite letter to type. It doesn’t matter much though, because you rarely use H and L, it’s usually W and B or 0.
Any thoughts on the ultimate hacking keyboard as an option? https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
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Remapping capslock to escape is not wrong if you’re using vim, in fact I would say it’s practically a requirement.
I've been using vi since 1985 (Xenix vi), and I have never in the need of remapping caps to ESC. But I don't press ESC with the little finger, I use the ring finger. Maybe I use the ring finger because the keyboards of the 80s were too hard. (and there were no ESC usage in those days typewriter training).
I agree with most of this, except the vim part. I use vim, dvorak and a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and have never felt that it held me back. If anything, I think it encouraged me to use more appropriate controls a available in vim. If you're moving around in vim one character at a time you're probably not getting the most out of it. I did learn dvorak before vim though, I can imagine unlearning and re-learning to be…
I would assume you Jay remapped your vim keys. Or that standard such remaps were already available for dvorak.
No one is going to type on my setup so I've also switched Ctrl and Alt
$ cat .Xmodmap
clear control
clear mod1
keycode 37 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 105 = Alt_R Meta_R
keycode 64 = Control_L
keycode 108 = Control_R
add control = Control_L Control_R
add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L
$ cat .xinitrc
xmodmap .Xmodmap
setxkbmap dvorak,ru -option grp:caps_toggle
...
My two cents on the RSI and fast typing. I learned typing 40 years ago, in the same way as secretaries do, with a real mechanical typewriter (an Olivetti one), and following an standard typewriter course for 2 months. My parents and relatives also used mechanical typewriters for 20 years before (8 hours a day). The writer says "CapsLock is useless... remap". I have seen that statement a lot of times, and I deeply fee…
My two cents on the RSI and fast typing. I learned typing 40 years ago, in the same way as secretaries do, with a real mechanical typewriter (an Olivetti one), and following an standard typewriter course for 2 months. My parents and relatives also used mechanical typewriters for 20 years before (8 hours a day). The writer says "CapsLock is useless... remap". I have seen that statement a lot of times, and I deeply fee…
The best similarly ergonomic designs we have at the moment are a gaming keypad [3] and some DYI projects [4].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrRWTeJ0-Ow
[4] https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard see also https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.800
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On another note, does anybody know how good steno keyboards tend to be for RSI issues in the long run?
I've practiced some steno with a regular keyboard (thanks to plover [5] and Typey Type [6]), but I'd need an actual steno keyboard to continue since I don't have N-key rollover on my current keyboard.
The Georgi [7] seems like a good option and I'd imagine that it would be pretty good for ergonomics since it's a split design and also rather small. The only problem is that I'd have to learn steno which will likely take quite some time.
Here's a demo of someone writing code with a steno keyboard (54 keystrokes needed vs 143 if you were using QWERTY) [8].
[5] http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/
[6] https://didoesdigital.com/typey-type/