Vim users, where do you rest your right hand?

 

Longtime vim users, do you keep your fingers on jkl; or hjkl in normal mode?

Standard touch typing teaches us the home position for the right hand has the index finger on the j key, so your fingers are on jkl; .

But standard vim motion keys are hjkl .

I'm getting back into vim after 10+ years (omg, I got old when I wasn't paying attention) and find myself gravitating towards hjkl ... but that makes it harder to type upper-right letters, braces, etc. I'd like to train myself to use the most efficient/pragmatic method now instead of having to re-train later.

Longtime, hardcore vim users, what's the best practice?

Note:

  • Bigger overlap with How do touch typists navigate in vi?
  • I think this passes the "subjective" test because it's about deliberately cultivating an unconscious best-practice and not simply about people's preference

    • I think that jkl; is actually the more appropriate usage for vi. For one, h and l really don't matter that much. w , e , and b are significantly more useful for horizontal navigation. As a bonus, ; is easy to get at if the language requires it. Having a weaker finger on k hurts, and you don't need your strongest finger on the h , when it should be on the j which is probably the most used of the four.

    Intro

    Neither of the previous 2 solutions was 100% satisfactory. I propose a 3rd way, one that combines the best of both worlds

    My Recomendation: "down-up-left-right"

    Keep up/down where they are, then make 3rd & 4th fingers left & right

    Then, to avoid overwriting base Vim features: Toss whatever used to be on ; to the now-empty h button

    As a cute bonus, the " l " key now stands for " left " ;)

    noremap lh
    noremap ; l
    noremap h ;


    The previous "runners-up", who both use "left-down-up-right" layout :

    Choice 1: "hjkl"

    @alternative's recommendation. Keybinds stay default ( hjkl ), right hand stays on home row ( jkl; )

  • pros:
  • j (down) and k (up) stay on your primary 2 fingers, where they deserve
  • cons:
  • You have to reach over for h (left) . Even if this isn't as used as w,e,b , it's still a bloody arrow button and it would be nice to have on home row
  • Basically: All 4 fingers aren't naturally resting on arrow buttons. This confuses my hand


    • Choice 2: "jkl;"

    Slide those 4 binds over 1 so they sit on the home row:

    noremap ; l
    noremap lk
    noremap kj
    noremap jh

  • pros:
  • No finger confusion; all the arrows are under the fingers naturally
  • cons:
  • As @alternative said, up/down being on the 2nd and 3rd finger is very "non-optimal"
  • Similarly, the strongest finger being on left is also a waste

    • I keep my hands on the home row, in the normal touch-typist manner. Rarely do I use the h key for movement, as moving one space to the left is not usually an efficient way to move (and does not really fit the essence of Vim).

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