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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:27:06+00:00

I’ve been crossing things out on my TODO list. I’ve recently picked up Colemak.

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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 changed. I realize that I could remap the keys, but assigning the functionality to different letters is not extremely appealing to me (if there is any relation between letters and their function. I know movement is not correlated but I’m not sure on all the rest.)

I don’t want to start an argumentative post about text editors, but rather receive comments from Colemak (or Dvorak) users about alternative keymappings and these two editors.

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  1. Glad to see another Colemak user 🙂

    For Emacs there really isn’t a need to remap, since the initial ‘shortcuts’ aren’t designed to be close to each other. If anything, you’re gonna be more comfortable using Emacs on Colemak than on Qwerty (at least I was).

    In Vim it’s a lot trickier since hjkl will be completely messed-up. Then again, I’ve always felt that hlkl was broken and should have instead been jkj; or ijkl, so a remap is probably a good thing. Here’s a broader discussion about Colemak+Vim on the Colemak forum: http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=50

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