I used Dvorak for about 7 years but I am now back to QWERTY. I learned to type with 10 fingers back in 1994 or so when in school. The reason I am back to Qwerty are:
Many programs choose their shortcuts based on QWERTY. Espcially editors like vim or emacs.
I don't type particularly faster on Dvorak.
I can't really feel a difference between the two schemes which makes one a killer over the other. In other words: Both schemes are about equally decent.
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I used Dvorak for about 7 years but I am now back to QWERTY. I learned to type with 10 fingers back in 1994 or so when in school. The reason I am back to Qwerty are:
Many programs choose their shortcuts based on QWERTY. Espcially editors like vim or emacs.
I don't type particularly faster on Dvorak.
I can't really feel a difference between the two schemes which makes one a killer over the other. In other words: Both schemes are about equally decent.
Then change the short-cuts of your editor. Especially one like vim or emacs.
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html
That's a pretty nice link!
I use my emacs with most default key bindings in dvorak and haven't noticed it any better/worse than qwerty. Like I said on the article, ymmv