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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: arrow keys vs hjkl in vi
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Date: 7 Oct 90 19:25:40 GMT
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In article <39847@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
> I suppose that you like using the cursor keys, but I suggest that you
> use hjkl (you can also use space, backspace, etc) instead.

Doubled. I unmap all the cursor keys in my .newsrc. They're so often mapped
to real VI commands such as ^L, ^V, and ^^. If they're not they generate
bogus commands when I type ahead of VI and hit sequences like "ESC" "y" (which
on some terminals maps to "delete to end of page" and some versions of VI
treat as "delete to end of file" (utterly bogus!).
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