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I added

  alias h=ls
  alias hh='ls -l'
to my .zshrc about 10 minutes after I started using Dvorak, 18 years ago. "ls" on its own is OK. It's not an especially common bigram (wails, fills, also, Welsh, whilst), but I can't find any English word matching ls[rlvz], which is the pattern of "ls -l". Compulsive, compulsory, falser, impulsive, maelstrom, pulsar, wellspring come closest.

I believe LSZ is all with the pinky in the usual method[1]. There's no other option on the keyboard I bought a couple of years ago, which also has several thumb keys.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Dvorak_keyboard_l...

[2] https://imgur.com/gallery/UIZ8Jz3



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