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Re: Vim Foot Pedal

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> Most vim users swap esc with caps lock anyway "Some", sure, but "most"? Not so sure about that. Besides, everyone knows what Ctrl is the One True Key™ in place of the Caps Lock and that only degenerate infidels map it to anything else.

That, and "inoremap jk ".

For some unremembered reason I changed from that to set =jk. No idea why but it also works.

Re: Vim Foot Pedal

#133

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I feel like people who think the "CTRL" key goes on the home row never pressed CTRL+Z, CTRL+X, CTRL+C or CTRL+V in their entire lives. Makes zero sense ergonomically to put the CTRL key on the home row. I tried it for about 0.05 seconds and after pressing CTRL+Z one time I knew it was not a good idea for me. pinky finger does not like pressing a key while being on a higher row than another finger also pressing a key.…

I just naturally used my ring or middle finger to press capslock in those cases. If you like the idea, then maybe stick with it longer than <1 sec. ;)

<1 sec was enough.

Re: Vim Foot Pedal

#134

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I feel like people who think the "CTRL" key goes on the home row never pressed CTRL+Z, CTRL+X, CTRL+C or CTRL+V in their entire lives. Makes zero sense ergonomically to put the CTRL key on the home row. I tried it for about 0.05 seconds and after pressing CTRL+Z one time I knew it was not a good idea for me. pinky finger does not like pressing a key while being on a higher row than another finger also pressing a key.…

thats becauze ctrl z/x/c/v aren't used for copy paste if you're using vim or emacs.

there are a lot more programs in use today than vim or emacs.
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