Re: [i3] vi and ADM-3A terminal
- From: Axel Wagner <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: i3-discuss <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:48:11 +0200
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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