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.
Don’t rebind. Using colemak. Just work with it as is and get used to it… It’s honestly not an issue. More of a getting used to thing.
How long was the adjustment period? So far the only thing I’m using from colemak is forcing caps lock to be backspace, easily one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
Can’t remember, honestly. But not unhappy currently.
Like others said, you can adapt to using most keybinds on colemak. I had a tough adapting to positional keybinds such as the home arrows. It just was in very weird places on colemak.
Eventually I started using Extend layer from BigBagTrix which provides many useful keys near home. It uses caps as a modifier but you could possibly add dual behavior for tap and hold to have backspace function if you want.
Now I am used to a mix of extend and vim bindings.
I’ve been using vi/vim with Dvorak for over 30 years. Why would you have to re-bind keys?
