[Vanhackspace] Reminder: Tuesday is Vim Orgy night

[Luke Closs]

The only time I use qwerty is on the rare occasion I'm on a friend's PC.  On
my OSX box, Apple provides an awesome local that is dvorak, but qwerty
apple-keys.  So my Apple-C/Apple-V cut/paste are normal, like they've been
my whole life.

As someone whose job it is to *type*, I find the cost of switching to dvorak
well worth it.  I mean qwerty was fucking invented in the 1890's.  It was a
different time back then - pre-9/11, and there were no black astronauts
then.

Luke

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM, dan anderson <dan.j.anderson at gmail.com>wrote:

> The third option I listed means that as long as you can make the
> mental switch to qwerty easily enough, nav/commands will be the same
> across platforms, and you'll have instant - and not terribly dangerous
> - feedback if you're inserting while mentally (or spinally/muscularly?
> I wonder whether the spine gets commands akin to "left index to j four
> times" vs. "four characters back") using the wrong keymap.
>
> 2009/2/16 Luke Closs <lukecloss at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jeff Davis <jeff at textsfornothing.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Looks like a handy book, Audrey.  If there's stuff in there that you've
> >> found useful, it would be cool to hear about it.  Hope we see you
> >> tomorrow!
> >>
> >> Luke, I'm curious to hear how you cope with Vim while using a Dvorak
> >> keyboard. :)
> >
> > When I switched to dvorak, I had to make a choice:
> >
> > A) re-map vim so that my muscle memory would continue to "just work"
> > B) re-learn vim with dvorak keys
> >
> > ISTM that A is a huge rathole, cause every new box you SSH to needs your
> > custom config, and then you can't share your vim with anyone.  So while B
> > was more work, it's a net win.  It was tough for about a week of
> full-time
> > work, but now it's wonderful.
> >
> > Luke
> >
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