vim-colemak VS mltype

https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak plugin with common remappings for colemak. modify it to taste but it's a good start. the other commenter said switching layouts isn't worth it, in my case it cured rsi. you probably won't type faster though.

This is a pretty unavoidable downside of alt keyboard layouts. For vim you'd probably want a plugin like https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak.

If you maintain your QWERTY muscle memory, you can use it as a fallback in foreign environments, but figuring out how to smoothly setup RC files on any target is probably the ideal: https://serverfault.com/questions/400522/how-to-use-a-custom...

Personally. I gave up on Dvorak in part due to this friction when I started introducing more and more tools like Vimperator (Firefox plugin, superseded by Tridactyl) into my workflow. The flexibility of switching on a vim mode anywhere and having it be 95% what I want is very high. The other factor was I still did a lot of same-machine peering then, which it added a lot of friction to. I do know highly capable engineers who go fully down the typing-ergonomics rabbit hole and stay there, but it does consume a fair amount of one's yak-shaving budget.

If you still wanna remap keys, you should search for a plugin such as this. They usually do a good job of remapping every key and deal with plugins keymaps compatibility.

Plugins probably to make your hands stay at QWERTY layout

Yes, very easily, people have even worked out suggested sensible keymaps for you. I think the main problem is if you're learning vim for the first time it's going to increase the learning curve quite a bit; commands like cib (change inside brackets) or yap (yank around paragraph), where you form instructions semantically, start using gibberish letters which increases the initial cognitive burden. You also can't use vi/vim on any other system.

When i tried switch to colemak, i found this plugin https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak

Hi, I want to run a command to change my keyboard layout when i change from normal to insert, on start and exit. I have do some research I didn't find anything that I think would work. My current solution remaps the keys in a non vim like fashion.

https://github.com/jankrepl/mltype is something like this. It is tuned for programmers though. And the quality of generated text might vary a lot. But it gives reasonable char sequences.

This script does require a package called mltype