Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
HI,
There are a lot of specialized curor movement commands, which all
will speed up one vimy life.
...exeption: You are editing on a german keyboard...
There you will "reach" "}" by pressing AltGr-0, "]" by presing
AltGr-9 and so on, which always is at least bad Yoga for your right
hand. Combinations like "[]" or "][" are even more painful
(german-keyboard-wise).
Is there a vim hacker out there, who has made good
experiences with a certain remapping of those keys/function to other
keys (without loosing other important vim features) and would like to
share those mappings ?
Thank you very much in advance for any help !
Keep hacking!
mcc
In general, the "safest" keys to use for the {lhs} of mappings are F2-F9,
F11-F12, Shift-F1 to Shift-F12, in the sense that they usually aren't already
used by something else, neither in Vim nor in the OS or window manager, and
that Vim can reliably and unambiguously detect them.
Personally, I don't have much difficulty depressing the AltGr key with the
right thumb then hitting other keys with the fingers of the right hand. The
hardest one on my Belgian keyboard is the "bar" key | (AltGr-1) but I can just
reach it with the right middle finger while holding down AltGr with the right
thumb. (Maybe I have pianist's hands?)
If you have {[]} on AltGr-7 to AltGr-0, you may want to remap them to the F
keys just above them (but without the modifier):
:map <F5> {
:map <F6> [
:map <F7> ]
:map <F8> }
:map! <F5> {
:map! <F6> [
:map! <F7> ]
:map! <F8> }
Best regards,
Tony.
