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Yes, I use it and I really think it has helped my wrists. I don't type much faster than I used to, but it feels much more comfortable. Another good trick is to swap your ctrl and capslock keys.

I don't have any trouble using vi with dvorak. Navigating using hjkl still makes sense.

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Yeah I definitely feel like my wrists move a lot less using Dvorak, so it is more comfortable for long periods for me at least.

I'll have to try the caplocks/ctrl switching.

Steve Yegge's post "Effective Emacs" has instructions for how to do this, plus some other emacs tips: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

Works best for me: making the caps be the escape key, and swapping alt and control.

I am a vim user.

Why swap alt and control: so that I can do control+whatever while pushing control with my thumb. No wrist or weird little finger streching to push the caps key.

It took me a while to get used to hjkl with Dvorak, but Nethack did a good job retraining me.

(As a vim user, I've swapped Caps Lock and Esc.)

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