Touchtyping (was Re: [Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line)

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 10:34:22 UTC 2002


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:27:54AM +0000, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> ps. I'm not making judgements on what works for anyone else, but I am
> puzzled why vim doesn't use jkl; as its movement keys... would the
> semi-colon cause a problem on some keyboards?

AFIR: the adm3a (a very early VDU) did not have arrow keys, but 4 of the alphabetic keys
had arrows engraved on them.

I leave it to you to deduce which letters & which arrows.

So what we have is an 18 year(ish) old accident.

-- 
Alain Williams

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