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Colemak is a keyboard layout designed for touch typing in English.

Colemak is a keyboard layout designed for touch typing in English.

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Show pressed keys in VIM normal mode statusline

I use VIM, the Colemak keyboard layout, and a Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard. Since the Natural 4000 has differently-shaped keys, I could not change the keycaps. This means each key is labeled with an "incorrect" key -- I press the key that says…
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Colemak keyboards with Emacs or VIM

I've been crossing things out on my TODO list. I've recently picked up Colemak. Next I wanted to learn Vim or Emacs. I was leaning towards Vim, however one of its benefits are sticking to the home row. With Colemak, the home row has been…
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How do you move the prefix argument to a different key in Emacs?

I'm using an alternate keyboard layout (Colemak) and I want to move the universal-argument command to a different key in Emacs, C-l instead of C-u. I tried the following, but it doesn't let me chain multiple universal arguments together…
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Modified Colemak for Programming

Does there exist a modified Colemak keyboard layout designed specifically for programming? I went cold-turkey on the Colemak keyboard layout a few days ago and I really like it for normal typing, but I have some issues for frequent programming…
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Vim: set langmap=e;h breaks supertab plugin

I am new to Vim and trying to set up some plugins. So far I have installed pathogen, pyflakes and supertab. The latter does not seem to work; pressing tab while in insert mode simply writes the string SuperTabForward. The problem only occurs…
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Emacs define-key, Viper-mode key binding

I'm trying to learn emacs, getting vi custom key bindings. Using Viper-mode, what is the correct way to re-bind a key? (I'm using Colemak keyboard layout(instead of qwerty) so have to change things like n->j) But would like it to work in…
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What's the Karabiner keycode for exclamation mark (!)?

I'm trying to switch the keys '1' and '!' with Karabiner, but i cannot find the key code for the exclamation mark anywhere. Is it not possible?
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Remapping of vim direction keys is not honored by viewport navigation

I am using colemak and thus I have remapped my direction keys like so noremap n h noremap e j noremap i k noremap o l noremap h n noremap j e noremap k i noremap l o The problem is that these keybindings are not honored by the viewport navigation.…
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vim remap n not working colemak

So, i'm a colemak user, and I'm trying vim for the first time. As a colemak user, I'm using colemak.vim, so my movement isn't on k,h,l,j, but u,n,i,e Right now, I'm trying to remap the CTRL-w(movement): Change focus to the window in the direction…
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Autohotkey v2.0.2 Performance Issue on changing keys

I'm a colemak user, I use ahk to change keys from qwerty layout into colemak. (f -> t, j -> n, ..., etc) Recently I upgraded ahk from v1.1 to v2.0.2, However, I found that the v2 version had some performance issues that I had never encountered on…
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how to typing with dvorak / colemak while in insert mode, but retaining vim’s normal key bindings in vscode vim?

I want to use dvorak layout to code in vscode,but i have a mass configure file in vscode vim based on the qwerty keyboard layout and i dont want to change my configure file. So how to use dvorak when i was typing while in insert mode in vscode vim…
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Mapping option+k in Sublime Text — ST never sees it, what is eating it? (OS X)

I realized that I never use any of the special characters I can get by holding down the option key, so I decided to map them to something more useful. This initially went peachy, until I tried remapping opt+k (well, opt+e for me since I'm on…
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Vim NERDTreeMenu Remapping

I'm a Colemak keyboard layout user and I recently started to learn and use Vim. I was able to map the arrow keys in the normal mode by putting custom mappings such as noremap u k in .vimrc (because the keys h, j, k, and i are in different places in…
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VIM Colemak yank remapping issues

So I am using an alternate Keyboard layout on my Mac (Colemak) and I have vim remapped for colemak layout by editing the .vimrc file as such (just two lines so that you get the picture): noremap y o noremap p r ... (and so on) So now, in VIM when…
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