[Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Feb 21 11:22:13 UTC 2002


On Thursday, 21 Feb 2002, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
>The thing that has put me off using the hjkl keys to move around in vim
>is that they are NOT the home keys I was trained on. All the typing
>training I've done (not a massive amount, grant you, but enough that I
>can get an impressive clickety-click out of the keyboard and not make
>too many mistakes...) teaches the following keys as 'home keys'
>a s d f  j k l ;

Unfortunately, at the time 'vi' was designed, ';' was not quite in a
consistent position on all keyboards.

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