Re: Dvorak/Svorak in Emacs

[Johan Andersson]

You are right about that!

I guess it's like you say, that you'll get used to it. It seems like more work to change some bindings than to use the default layout. One more reason to use the Svorak layout as it is, would be that I use Firemacs plugin in Firefox and Conkeror. And then I would have to do the same thing there. And of course none of them are as flexible as Emacs. In Firemacs I don't even think that it would be possible to remap the keys like that.

So, if I one of these days decide that I have the time to learn Svorak (hopefully soon), I'll stay with the default layout.

Thanks for the tips!

2009/10/4 Renaud Casenave-Péré <renaud@casenave-pere.fr>

> Thinking about it. The only thing I don't want to learn again are the
> movement keys. So I guess I could just rebind C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b, M-f and
> M-b.

Hum... I don't know if it's really a good idea.
If you want to keep C-f, you will need to rebind C-u as well, as `u' in dvorak is where `f' is in qwerty.
With the same logic, you would have to rebind C-x (where `b' is), C-l (`n') and C-r (`p').

I think you should rebind every keys or none, because if you start rebinding just those you need at random places, I don't think it will be very comfy.

I guess you could check Xah Lee's emacs tutorial [http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html] which provides an ergonomic shortcuts layouts for qwerty or dvorak, if I remember well. I didn't test it, I don't have the courage to learn every shortcut again...

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Renaud Casenave-Péré