dickfickling

I'm not trying to be difficult here, just genuinely curious: why disable the arrow keys? Is it simply the speed boost you get from using hjkl on the home row vs moving your hand to the arrows?

I use Colemak, so hjkl is very counter-intuitive for me, whereas the arrow keys make sense and aren't /that/ far away.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684515 has some good explanations. So does anyone have suggestions for non-QWERTY users? remap the keys that are in the HJKL space, leading to a cascade of keys moved around? Deal with the counter-intuitiveness of actually using HJKL?

I had to create a modified keyboard layout, starting from one in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.

Use the showkey command to find out what keycode the caps lock key generates (mine is 58), then add a line in your layout file to the effect of

keycode 58 = Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape

Finally, load your new layout using loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/{yourlayoutname}/{yourlayoutname}.map.gz

The article was written in August 2010; who knows how long ago the video was pulled.

Looks like they forgot to un-blackout their info page. Whoops!

Edit: And... fixed.