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Domino effect: more key remappings

The problem with remapping these home row keys is that at least two of them had other functionality. We need to replace this.

d
The delete key is the trickiest one. I like having it on the home row, and I didn't want to have to re-train for that one, so I remapped it to the same finger on the same hand -- what is now `e'. This does mean you can't go to the end of words now, but you can go to the end of Words. The distinction between the two in vim is fine enough that it doesn't bother me, and I've learned to hit `E' instead of `e' when I want to move forward by the ends of words.

noremap e d

``Alternately,'' says Jason Lunz,6, ``if you're willing to learn a new delete key, you can just replace d with j or k. I didn't want to relearn the muscle memory, and it's nice to have delete on home row because it's so frequently used.''

n
This used to be the next item in a search. Since the `l' key is now totally freed up, having been freed of its ``go one space right'' cursor function, we may as well use it for this.

noremap l n


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Nori Heikkinen 2003-11-12