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When using visual line numbers, you need to enable evil-respect-visual-line-mode (before evil loads) and visual-line-mode so that line jump commands are actually respected.

See here for detailed write up on what I mean.

The issue is, when I enable colemak mode, it no longer respects the the visual line mode. (Skips over visual lines and moves the cursor based on logical lines). This completely breaks the line number based movement commands.

Say I am on line 1 and line numbers show the line I want to be on is line 25 (with visual line numbers enabled) but there are 5 lines of folded text between me and the line I want to be on. When I type '25n' I end up on line 29 instead of line 25. This defeats the entire purpose of having relative/visual line numbers.

Is there maybe something I'm missing when setting the relevant variables and packages in my config?

At the top of my init.el file I have (setq evil-respect-visual-line-mode 't), in my packages.el I have (package! evil-colemak-basic) which includes the relavant MELPA package and then in my config.el I have

(use-package evil-colemak-basics
    :init
        (setq evil-colemak-basics-layout-mod `mod-dh)
    :config
        (global-evil-colemak-basics-mode))

This is with DOOM Emacs but afaik this should apply to vanilla Emacs as well.

The end-of-word / jump-to-char / jump-until-char rotation from #2 may become a defcustom for this package.

The u/l (undo/insert) tweak can also be made into a flag.

I prefer to use emacs with this package, but sometimes I must use vim.
I think a nice convenience to add to this package would be a .vimrc file that adds the same keybindings for ease of transitioning.

I have a basic one here, I'm not sure it's correct
https://gist.github.com/tommy-mor/77edead23a6040caa5aaa5f2a0714360

an easy to reach 'end of word' (easy to reach e on qwerty, j on colemak with the package)

Non-issue but maybe throwing out some ideas on how this may be modified can be captured here.

E.g. in magit-status-mode I want to keep using f for magit-fetch instead of evil-forward-word-end, which is defined in evil-colemak-basic-keymap. Horizontal movement isn't needed there anyway. Can I somehow remove those keys locally from evil-colemak-basic-keymap, without affecting the keymap in other modes? Or maybe just make the keys from magit-mode-map take precedence somehow? Do you have any recommendation how best do that?

Of course the alternative approach would be to just disable evil-colemak-basics and just replace it with my own minimal config, e.g. n e for down/up and leading the rest, but would be cool if there was a better way and I feel a bit stupid not figuring that out myself...

Hi, I'm trying the colemak keybindings but I find more confortable using "neio" for navigation keys because "n" is the home key for the right hand and this allows to virtually map each finger to a movement.

Instead "hnei" force to use index finger for two navigation keys or shift the whole hand away from the home position destroying the benefits of colemak layout.

What do you think about?

The only hjkl-like commands left uncovered by this package is the window commands. I'd love to add support for them, but here my Emacs Lisp is not enough as they are inside evil-window-map. 😕

My workaround is the following lines in init.el (that's all that should be redefined when the t-f-j rotation is turned off):

  (define-key evil-window-map "n" 'evil-window-down)
  (define-key evil-window-map "N" 'evil-window-move-very-bottom)
  (define-key evil-window-map (kbd "C-S-n") 'evil-window-move-very-bottom)
  (define-key evil-window-map "e" 'evil-window-up)
  (define-key evil-window-map "E" 'evil-window-move-very-top)
  (define-key evil-window-map (kbd "C-S-e") 'evil-window-move-very-top)
  (define-key evil-window-map "i" 'evil-window-right)
  (define-key evil-window-map "I" 'evil-window-move-far-right)
  (define-key evil-window-map (kbd "C-S-i") 'evil-window-move-far-right)
  ;; Kreate new window
  (define-key evil-window-map "k" 'evil-window-new)
  (define-key evil-window-map "\C-k" 'evil-window-new)

Could you please add support for them or give me some hints on how to do that?

Whenever I open a pdf in pdf-view-mode (I am using pdf-tools) with evil-colemak-basics-mode turned on I am unable to navigate with m-n-e-i (or with the traditional h-j-k-l). If I turn off evil-colemak-bascs-mode then the traditional evil keybindings work perfectly. Is there something that I can add to my config to get colemak navigation in pdf's?

...for visual-line vs regular line.

Hi, 👋

I have been using this package for almost three years, and it has been a lifesaver. Thank you so much.

I wanted to learn more about the details, but I am stuck at the "The tables below indicate whether a key has its Colemak meaning".

Would you mind adding a description for each symbol?

↕ 	× 	⬇	⬆

I tried to interpret them, but no luck so far. I understand ↕ is for keys that don't change, and ⬇ is for keys that change to their Colemak representation. But what about ⬆? For example, p ⬆ r or g ⬆ t. I can't figure it out. The same thing applies to ×.

It would be beneficial if the symbols had thorough descriptions.

Thank you! 🍨