Peter Krantz » VIM http://www.peterkrantz.com A blog about technology, visualization, music and unmanned vehicle experiments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:47:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Ideal VIM Keyboard http://www.peterkrantz.com/2006/vim-keyboard/ http://www.peterkrantz.com/2006/vim-keyboard/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:27:43 +0000 Pete http://www.peterkrantz.com/2006/vim-keyboard/ My colleague Niklas nagged me for not having disabled the caps lock key on my MacBook Pro. I was a bit disoriented at first but coming to think of it, I haven’t used the caps lock key since I got the MBP back in April.

This made me think about which keys I actually use. Being a recent VIM convert I wonder if Apple’s designers hate VIM. Efficient editing in VIM require you to use the escape key a lot. On the MBP the escape key is one of the smallest keys on the keyboard for some reason.

Am I whining about superfluous things? Maybe so. Maybe I should just shut up and remap my caps lock key to escape.

Give me larger keys!

The ideal VIM keyboard should have a large escape key. The colon is used a lot too. Maybe it could look something like this:

The ideal VIM keyboard

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