colemak is definitely going to nerdsnipe me isnt it... god i love procrastination.

Not sure if I meant copy paste in the literal sense but fair enough

and I mean.. I do think things are fun to thinker with. I run my own Colemak version that Ive put a ton of work into perfecting (for my personal use, now with elisp for example I see that I will probably need to add the ' (the leaning one - which my mastodon client wont even allow me to write apparently). figuring out what I want in the keyboard, what I want OS level and what in Emacs is also gonna be fun! I really need to build a cyberdeck - it annoys me so much that my laptop keyboard isnt ortholiner!

As for switching layout, I gain nothing from convincing you, so I am not really pushing it.. THAT SAID, takes about two weeks to match type speed on Colemak if you go cold turky then it is all uphill. But Colemak is also built in such manner that you do not need to go cold turkey - you can swap a keypair at a time. I do advise you to at least look at it. Imo just read thru their amazing faq (that also btw tends to answer every single question and objection that people throw at me)

legit - its not very long and quite interesting - I recommend giving it a read even if you dont intend or end up switching

FAQ - Colemak

(colemak.com)

I thought things like doom was little more than a preconfig? What is system crafters?

another way might be to copy other people's configs, but i think those helper type kits are often distilled from doing that.

man such a right-click facility for linux or similar would be amazingly empowering!

unfortunately i don't have time to learn another keyboard layout right now and i type QWERTY quick enough. how does emacs do with non-QWERTY layouts? the, perhaps unfortunate, state of vim is that there is _probably_ a plugin for remapping stuff for different layouts, but if you ask someone else how they did something, they'll likely just give you the motions in QWERTY.

vim (once you learn it) is pretty good at removing the need to use a mouse. there are plugins for loads of things to use vim keybinds which is also handy. however it doesn't really come batteries-included (though, neovim is working on it with native LSP and package manager).

i should probably try emacs at some point for fun. did recently try an editor called "ki" which seems to have keyboard-layout agnostic binds and operates on the syntax tree rather than just lines which is pretty cool. unfortunately there was no "getting started" tutorial or transition guide for vim or emacs users.

Really would I want something that can hold my hand but at the same time teach me and encourage me to do it myself. Like if when I started using Linux I would have wanted something that showed me the bash commands for what i was doing, like if i rightclick "new folder" it'd show me "mkdir newfolder".

Vi-likes have had a pull for sure, I guess the main reason I never got into using one is that it just seems very contradictory. Like people talking about effectiveness but at the same time using a software that seem to be very qwerty focused in its base layout.. I guess also because it seems like most vi-like people I talk to seem to be people who will scoff at modern IDEs for being user friendly.. not saying that is everyone but yea, it is the ones I seem to tend to run in to^^

Don't get mad about this being a rabbit hole or you have to learn elisp. These prepared configurations help a lot and you can easily customize them with barely no knowledge about Elisp (beside syntax basics).
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