On 4/1/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Um.... what sort of keyboard are you using? I can hit <escape> with my little finger (or with control-[), which is a LOT less movement than moving my hands to the arrow keys. You must have a really funky keyboard if it's easier to use the arrow keys than to hit escape, do your movement, and then hit i or a. Two additional keystrokes and no moving your hands from the home row.
I use a laptop, so the arrow keys are basically the same distance as the left control key. When I had a desktop, I used my Happy Hacking Lite keyboard with has the arrow keys in the same place. Maybe my little finger is too short (though I doubt it), but I cannot comfortably keep any of my left fingers on their home keys while hitting the control or escape keys on a keyboard with a typical layout. You may say that I could swap control with caps lock, but I have found that it is easier to just use vim to remap escape to be the key sequence jj. Then you really don't need to leave the home row. -- Rick -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
