Dot files can easily be remote hosted.  So I wouldn't be too shy about shoving all you vim goodness in some remote repo, and pulling them down when you need them, and shortly after, toss them away.

For me,  I'm just worried that remapping would clobber other shortcuts.  It can get quite messy.

Oh – nice! Keep in mind that golemak is on ice and probably will stay that way. So I don't think you actually need that link to it. ;)

To anyone who's using an evil variant (or emacs in general):

The package keyfreq.el can help us gather some sorely needed statistics, maybe even allow us to make heatmaps of evil keys.  I first saw it mentioned on Xah Lee's command frequency study, but of course that study is more canonical emacs.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure it distinguishes, for example, the letters typed in :somecommand or while acejumping; if I understand correctly, it records all the typing as "self-insert-command".  Might look to add this later.  It does not take into account digraphs or anything like that, only raw frequencies.  Also, the numbers seem to vary across emacs instances (for instance, this "Edit with Emacs" daemon vs a normally started up instance), so not sure what to make of that. I doubt it would significantly affect the percentage results, so I guess that's okay.

I'll post my own results after getting some more data.  If anyone else wants to volunteer it might be an interesting comparison.

Update:

If any hardcore emacsers want to retain their old shortcuts while using modifierless, modal editing, there's a new project, somewhat daringly called God Mode, but which is probably better described as C- mode or Command Mode.

It doesn't solve all the problems (most notably, "x", commonly used with modifiers but very awkward as a standalone key, probably needs remapping), but it gets a few steps closer.