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Comment by eska | original | Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

[−]eska · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:40 UTC · link

Sorry to be blunt, but if you don’t want to spend effort on touch typing (and therefore avoid arrow keys), learning vim motions is rather pointless and you might as well not bother.

[−]jldugger · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:21 UTC · link

but what if i learned to type Colemak?

[−]eska · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:34 UTC · link

At that point does your keyboard even still have arrow keys?

[−]adrian_b · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:45 UTC · link

Many years ago, I have switched to touch-typing using the Dvorak layout (on standard QWERTY keyboards), which I find much more comfortable.

Obviously any classic control key assignments, like those of vi or those of emacs, are far from optimal on a non-standard keyboard layout.

The only decent solution is to remap all control keys in your text editor, to whichever positions you prefer.

Any good text editor allows that. Likewise, all programs with a good user interface allow the remapping of the keyboard shortcuts.