Hi Daniel, Excerpts from Daniel Bolgheroni's message of 2012-04-26 16:52:01 +0200: > Are there any reasons to shift "right" the classic vi 'hjkl' directions > commands to 'hjk;'?
Yes, hjk; is on the homerow, that is, you don't have to take your hands of your keyboard, while typing, to navigate your windows. > There is a historic reason for using 'hjkl': > > http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys/ > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684763 I personally don't care that much about “historical reasons”, the whole qwertz-layout-thing is due to “historical reasons” and it sucks ;) > Besides this, there is a practical reason too. On a lot of non-US layout > keyboards, ';' doesn't come at the right side of 'k', where 'hjkl' is > almost universal. This makes a pain use i3 with the default conf. In the default, i3 should run the configuration-manager at startup. The default-config uses keycodes and it should use your current keyboard, to transform that into keysymbols. Therefore the layout you use shouldn't matter in the default-case. If you switch layouts often, use the default-default-config (in /etc/i3/config in debian, or in ./i3.config in the source), it uses keycodes and will therefore automatically adapt to your needs ;) The main developer (and the biggest userbase at least in the beginnings of i3) uses a non-US-layout by the way ;) Kind regards, Axel
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