If you still lament the Vim shortcuts, you can blame the keyboard on the ADM-3A ;)
Bill Joy, who wrote Vi, used one those and the Ctrl key was on the home row while Esc was where Tab is today. It also didn't have most of the keys we take for granted
BTW, the manual for it is still available courtesy of Classic Computing (PDF):
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/altair/d/adm3a.pdf
@cypnk Ctrl key on the home row WHERE IT'S MEANT TO BE DAMNIT
I'll give you the Esc key placement though
@troubleMoney Speaking of... This was one of the layouts I've been playing around with for my DIY computer. I don't know if this is final yet (I've had so many iterations!), but it's one of the simplest to make with off-the-shelf keys (no long spaces)
@troubleMoney Couldn't keep the layout identical to ISO, but I was able to put in a big key inverted and still get all the standard keys in
@troubleMoney Oh, I was using http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ and it's very easy to swap out keys. Should be no problem to put in an ISO enter key and keep the width exactly the same