Looking for non-conflicting cross-platform keybinding consistency
I tried putting together a cheat sheet or reference card. After exploring various possibilities I ended up doing the following:
- Switch from a Swedish keyboard to an English (international) due to the latter being (in my opinion) superior when writing code as well as still being able to type åäö by alt+a/+w/+u+a/+o.
- Switch from QWERTY to Dvorak because I like how the keys are positioned (no scientific claims here) for programming purposes (had a look at "Programmer Dvorak" but that was too much).
- Replace vim hjkl movement with dhtn, dD with jJ (mnemonic: "junk"), K with H and the ctrl+w prefix with ctrl+o.
- Some minor additions (and unbinding advanced features to start out easy)...
TL;DR - stick to using prefixes where available, e.g. ctrl+a in tmux, ctrl+o (Dvorak)/ctrl+s (QWERTY) in vim and irssi. This seems to have the least consequences and be somewhat cross-platform-friendly.
