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Comment by p-e-w

Looks like Nyxt, a browser "inspired by Vim", inherits Vim's showstopper bug: Being unusable on many non-US keyboards, at least with the default bindings. The 'switch-buffer-previous' command is bound to C-[, which cannot be pressed e.g. on QWERTZ layouts because the [ character requires AltGr. This is like sending around text files encoded in Windows-1252 and expecting things to just work.

Sorry folks, but it turns out that the creators of Vi(m) didn't actually invent the ultimate UI paradigm half a century ago. It's bad enough that a text editor that ignores the past few decades of UX research is still in widespread use, but please, for the love of God, stop incorporating that broken paradigm into new products.

What a pity, because Nyxt looks like a well-designed piece of software otherwise.

parent p-e-w 3 years ago

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