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All of that either already exists as described, or keystroke-count equivalents exist, in every programmer editor. If people aren't using it in existing editors they sure aren't going to pick up a radically different keyboard layout to use it.

(Said the guy who types in an increasingly-heavily-modified Dvorak layout. I recently mapped Backspace to "change window" (i.e., ALT-Tab in most WMs), since I long since moved Backspace to Caps Lock. You can't be much more willing to fiddle with your keyboard layout than I am.)



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