[Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line

[Stig Brautaset]

* David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> spake thus:
> On Wednesday, 20 Feb 2002, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> >Christ, can someone please explain to me what is so wrong with using the 
> >arrow keys in vi? Fine if you're running *nix on keyboards or terminals 
> >without arrow keys, but if you're using vi on a PC with an AT keyboard 
> >manufactured any time after about 1983 I don't see the point in NOT using 
> >arrow keys...?
> 
> Three reasons spring to mind. Firstly, vi's a basic editor (powerful,
> but it's not exactly Emacs), and you're likely to have to use it in
> awkward disaster situations. Such as only having a serial terminal
> with a funny keyboard to work with.

no comment.

> Secondly, on a slow connection, vi can misinterpret the arrow keys.

Didn't know that. That's interesting.

> Thirdly, the hjkl keys are more efficient once you are used to them,
> since they don't require as much movement of the hands across the
> keyboard.

Thus speaks the qwerty-user! Yep guys, it's time for a new flamefest;
this time, the topic is "keyboard layouts". I personally prefer Dvorak
(the two-handed version). Is there someone else out there that use
something else than qwerty, and Dvorak in particular?  (I'm pretty sure
Nix doesn't, because he use emacs.  It is positively impossible to use
emacs default[1] key bindings with Dvorak without breaking ones'
fingers).

Stig

[1] -- not suggesting that you use the default key bindings Nix, but
surely you haven't remapped them *all*?

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