Use a leader key instead of the control key for ergonomics

Kazark

10 years ago

My left hand, arm and wrist get pretty beat up with sustained Vim usage—and my Vim usage is sustained almost every since day. I decided that hitting keys in sequence was easier than holding one down while pressing another, so it was better to use a leader key than to hold down CTRL. I codified this in a configurable plugin (https://github.com/Kazark/vim-leading-not-control), but if you want a flattened out version you can cut and paste, here's an example (replace <Space> with whatever you want).

nmap <Space>d <C-d>
nmap <Space>e <C-e>
nmap <Space>g <C-g>
nmap <Space>l <C-l>
nmap <Space>t <C-t>
nmap <Space>u <C-u>
nmap <Space>v <C-v>
nmap <Space>w <C-w>
nmap <Space>y <C-y>
nmap <Space>] <C-]>
nmap g<Space>g g<C-g>