vim-colemak VS tridactyl

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on Dvorak in part due to this friction when I started introducing more and more tools like Vimperator (Firefox plugin, superseded by Tridactyl) into my workflow.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.

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You can achieve this with native messaging [0] in tridactyl [1]:

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/850acdf2ca11018e...

It's really cool, I've added an option to open these windows in floating mode automatically in my sway config through another application name iirc. Ans then I press a simple shortcut, and it opens my editor (Helix) with the already entered text and once I close it, it'll transfer the text from that temporary file which was open in your editor to the the input field/textare again.

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger

as a pentadactly widow, i would recommend to anyone that is coming back to firefox tridactyl https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

is it the same? no.

but is it close? hell yeah. it really helps me with productivity!

> I can't even edit the code that is taking focus and hijacking shortcuts!

You can remove the shortcuts pretty easily with a userscript, see lines ~410-440 here for inspiration: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/2eaba7e4ceec6de5...

Wait until you find out about Tridactyl [0], which, among a plethora of other features, can activate a command line where you can perform all these searches (for example, `:tabopen` will list and activate fuzzy search of all opened tabs).

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

You might be interested in using a browser plugin like Tridactyl instead, I’ve been using it for months now absolutely no complaints, no need to “simulate” the mouse anymore just use page hints to click exactly the html element you want to https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Nearly everything on reddit uses reddit-flavored markdown. Backticks for inline code, as you discovered, but indent code blocks with four spaces. I use a browser extension so that I can edit all my comments in Vim, so manipulating this markup, especially code blocks, is easy.

I use tridactyl but the limitation of firefox API prevents addon to even change the built-in shortcuts: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/1428.