Your keyboard must be slightly different than the one I have in front of me right now. Home row to esc and home row to arrows is the same distance on mine.
First, as I said, I remapped ESC to TAB key. Tab is very close.
Second, it’s different to hit ESC ones than to use arrows keys to move around. To go back to home row after using arrow keys I have to feel around the keys trying to find “j” again. Or look at keyboard. I don’t have to do that after hitting ESC once.
I’m not bothering to talk about non default layouts. Remapping is a separate discussion, since I could just as easily say it’s better to remap wasd to the arrow function and have the FN key toggle it, since a much higher number of people already have that navigation method trained into muscle memory. This is a preference game no matter what, but it becomes an especially pointless discussion if you base it on custom layouts.
Custom layout was only part of my answer. Most vim users don’t use custom layouts and second point still holds.
I could just as easily say it’s better to remap wasd to the arrow function and have the FN key toggle it,
Great idea. It would give you like 5% of what vim offers but 5% is better than 0%.
much higher number of people already have that navigation method trained into muscle memory
All vim users have hjkl trained into muscle memory. No one is saying that it’s automatically better. vim has a learning curve. When you know how to use it it’s simply better than traditional editors.
Your keyboard must be slightly different than the one I have in front of me right now. Home row to esc and home row to arrows is the same distance on mine.
First, as I said, I remapped ESC to TAB key. Tab is very close.
Second, it’s different to hit ESC ones than to use arrows keys to move around. To go back to home row after using arrow keys I have to feel around the keys trying to find “j” again. Or look at keyboard. I don’t have to do that after hitting ESC once.
I’m not bothering to talk about non default layouts. Remapping is a separate discussion, since I could just as easily say it’s better to remap wasd to the arrow function and have the FN key toggle it, since a much higher number of people already have that navigation method trained into muscle memory. This is a preference game no matter what, but it becomes an especially pointless discussion if you base it on custom layouts.
Custom layout was only part of my answer. Most vim users don’t use custom layouts and second point still holds.
Great idea. It would give you like 5% of what vim offers but 5% is better than 0%.
All vim users have hjkl trained into muscle memory. No one is saying that it’s automatically better. vim has a learning curve. When you know how to use it it’s simply better than traditional editors.