I bought this clacky thing and started using emacs for the third(?) time.
And now I'm (slowly) typing this in dvorak.
Is it terminal?
Edit: Guess I should mention it's a Nuphy Air60 V2 given the com. I was a bit hasty.
What’s Emacs? Is it as good as Vim?
Emacs is a lovely operating system used by many. I think it also has a text editor.
Really wondering to myself if I should take this seriously or not, but I use doom with evil-mode fwiw. Both are holy saints.
Please don't dedicate yourself to only Dvorak, or you'll forget how to use qwerty and alienate yourself to only your keyboards. Try alternating between both, I did the same for Colemak and now I can type both with similar speeds
Why? I can touch type COLEMAK and type like I did on QWERTY years ago whenever I need, which is not often.
Lol yeah, I did then same thing but went a little overboard. I type Colemak on my split ortho tented keyboard exclusively. I also learned to properly touch type on colemak. I've trained my muscle memory to the point I cannot type colemak on anything other than my split and If I try and touch type properly on a qwerty keyboard I end up defaulting back to colemak. To me they're almost entirely different skillsets!
Can you expand on your setup?
As far as the keyboard, I got a Nuphy Air60 V2 as my first. Maybe not super top, but it's comfy and I'm loving it. Emacs is a rabbithole, unless you wanna get into that too lol
Oh, and the switches are Nuphy's special moss LPs. I think they're supposed to be like slightly heavier browns?
So you use default vim bindings with dvorak? I use neovim and type in qgmlwy but I remapped the bindings in my config.
I haven't tried it with vim in full yet, but I was surprised by how comfortable the hjkl positions are in dvorak. i like tiling window managers with win+vi keys for navigation and such, so it would be important. Dvorak L is kind of annoying at P, and I'm trying to make myself hit it with the pinky usually, but it actually feels alright for keying around in navigation.
I mostly don't want to have to end up rebinding everything, possibly for every program I use indefinitely, if I stick with the layout. So I'm just learning the new positions to start, and will probably always need a way to switch to qwerty for games.
For around 20 years now, I've been using emacs (maybe one or two years), vim (maybe 10+ years?), neovim (maybe about 2 years), then kakoune for about a year, and now helix for about 2 years.
Also been using the i3 window manager for probably 15 years.
So I'm definitely one to be used to the "vi keys".
But I never understood why people would navigate the lines and columns in their files using hjkl. It's so damn slow. Using w, e or b is much faster and more accurate. And using / to search to jump farther is also much faster, even if you are using jk with a count modifier.
Not to mention the more modern ways of navigating files now by using the power of a language server. You can have stuff like find-and-jump-to-symbol, or jumping between all the different occurrences of a symbol. It's blisteringly fast compared to hjkl. I rarely use hjkl, at least not hl.
You're hitting the nail on the head there. I've always used b/e and honestly forgot w for motion until recently. Trying out dvorak is kind of breaking the habit in-editor aside from menu nav. Doom with evil-mode also has 's' as a quick 2-letter isearch that is incredibly handy. I've seen about helix and other modern projects, they just seem to stray from the weirdness I learned to love about vim, even if they may be more intuitive.
Using hyprland, emacs, and now dvorak too is tangling my brain sometimes. I've resolved to using super for my WM mod key as to not mess up emacs even though it's less comfortable. I'm considering making a post to get a feel for peoples' use of alt layouts, WM bindings, and Extend/layers. Just not sure if this would be the right com or not.
To pack some more in here unsolicited, I also worked out a capslock overload that is kinda wild. Tap for oneshot control, hold for super, or tap-then-hold to hold control. The super-hold even reverts to a control when intending to use the oneshot and rolling too fast. Oh, and hitting caps again in the oneshot gives escape since caps to control/escape was my original overload. It's gnarly and I want to post about it too at some point.
Apologies for the dump lol, might have to come back to this if I decide to post.
Apologies for the dump lol, might have to come back to this if I decide to post.
Don't worry, I love it.
Say, have you heard about the Colemak-DH layout? I've never tried a different layout other than QWERTY in my life, but I'm excited to try and learn CDH after I get my ZSA Voyager split keyboard. I'm freaking giddy about that keyboard. I'm 38, I feel like waiting for Christmas Eve again. I also have a beefy computer ordered which I'm waiting on. Nope, not as exciting as the Voyager. 🤓
Dvorak is only clumsy for the first few years. After that, you stop thinking about it and it feels natural.
Lol idk if there's a maybe little sarcasm there, but honestly, I love it already. I've been averaging about 15 wpm at 80% accuracy, and getting the groove to manage a few seconds at 30 wpm is so smooth.
Good work! Only a little sarcasm, but after 35 years, I can type faster than I can write, and it just feels like thinking into the computer. (Does it feel the same for QWERTY typists? I dunno)