Comments on: The Ideal VIM Keyboard

By: WANG QIANG

WANG QIANG — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:05:00 +0000

I like this one. I want to buy it. ^_^

By: remove Wolfram Antivirus Virus

remove Wolfram Antivirus Virus — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:19:00 +0000

The Ideal VIM Keyboard looks nice ,I want to buy one ,I like it very much.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:28:31 +0000

@devski, What? Are you saying that other people besides programmers use computers? Pics or it didn’t happen!

By: devski

devski — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:03:46 +0000

current keyboard layout is optimal for regular use by the general population. the problem is not the keyboard but vi, due to its modal nature. suggestion of an esc key on home row, now thats a big wtf for everybody else (except the vi user).

a better idea is to develop a separate keyboard with vi in mind (escape or colon in home) to be used solely by programmers. hey you can even add a foot pedal lol..

By: newToVim

newToVim — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:02:16 +0000

@werd: I doubt you’ll ever come back to page and read my post but I just want to tell you that I laughed heartiliy at your two posts! Plus, that keeping the actual ESC-key as ESC is one hell of a useful tip. Thanks man!

By: werd

werd — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:41:57 +0000

as a corollary observe that because CapsLock is worse than useless it’s important to let the actual ESC key still be ESC so that while still adjusting to your new homerowESC superpowers you don’t accidentally trigger a bout of WTRFDAWAH syndrome (see earlier post by YOURS AWESOMELY)

By: werd

werd — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:39:34 +0000

ESC should definitely superlutely be on the homerow. You use it EVERY TIME YOU DO ANYTHING EVER. in vim. ctrl-anything is way less than ideal because a) control is not on the home row (except in this example proposed utopian vim keyboard of which I DO NOT APPROVE because ESC is not on the home row) and b) you need another finger. CTRL-[ can at least be done with two pinkies but it’s still way more wallowing in non-optimality than the tried-and-true Murdering CapsLock For Being Worse Than Useless method. If I couldn’t make CapsLock do anything useful I would immerse in HCl anyway because that shit will fsck you up. especially in vim where it induces sudden onset of Why-the-ron-fricke-doesn’t-anything-work-and-HolyWTFdidIjustdo syndrome. and the purported point of caps lock is that it lets you type things IN ALL CAPS which i just did a non-editor without using it anyway like i wouldn’t have even if I was nincompoopified enough not to have ditched its sorry ace long ago for our good friend HomeRowESC the grand saviour of earthworms and mudpuddles. THE END

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:36:43 +0000

Esc is a small key on all keyboards.
Swap esc and caps lock and you’re done.
The colon isn’t actuall used that much, nearly all the : commands have a normal mode alternative that doesnt use it.

The person who suggested a ctrl combination: [facepalm]…tut, tut, EMACS users…

By: robert

robert — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:47:35 +0000

CTRL-[ is the preferred way to exit insert mode.

By: ahsjar

ahsjar — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:52:46 +0000

original vi was made on the ADM3A terminal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM3A

By: steveo

steveo — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:16:22 +0000

Ctrl-C, by default, will do the same thing as ESC in vim.

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JackyMool — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:22:42 +0000

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By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:10:12 +0000

The ideal vim keyboard should not require you to lift your hand to hit Esc. You can have an ideal vvim keyboard by remapping your caps lock to an escape, or remap it to a control and use Ctrl+[ instead of escape