Has anyone ever tried to use vim on a non qwerty layout? I’ve always been interested in colemak but having to possibly re-bind every single key for vim is daunting.

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For me, it’s about knowing the mnemonic for the various vim commands and what the keys do, not where they are placed on the Qwerty layout. I’ve been touch-typing Dvorak for over 20 years and think about what I am trying to do in vim/vi (or evil-mode) rather than where on the keyboard I need to hit a key.

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I’ve been using vi/vim with Dvorak for over 30 years. Why would you have to re-bind keys?

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