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After having tried Dvorak for a couple of days (weeks?) a couple years back, I found my peace with the american default layout. Typing on dvorak was fun, and the learning process was really fun, too - fighting two decades of muscle memory was quite the experience.

But at some point I realized that I now have to adapt all the bindings - without a solution to this, I'm not willing to try out different stuff. I need vi to work out of the box, especially because I also use the vi-bindings in tmux, zsh and firefox. Sigh.

Looks really interesting though.



Is it possible to use a keyboard layout when typing text, but revert to QWERTY when doing ctrl+V or other key combinations?

At the most basic level, you could simply have the keyboard layout change whenever Ctrl, Alt, or Meta/Super is pressed...


Yes, Mac OS has this built in as one of their Dvorak options.




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