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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Whence vi's hjkl?
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.211355.7919@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 15 Apr 91 21:13:55 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.021544.19067@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr15.021544.19067@umbc3.umbc.edu> rouben@math16.math.umbc.edu () writes:
>Wouldn't it have been more natural to adopt the {j,k,l,;} keys
>for cursor movement instead?  Aren't the {j,k,l,;} keys the standard
>left hand's "home" keys for touch-typists?  Does it mean that the
>designer(s) of vi were not touch-typists themselves?

Fairly obviously the designers of vi wern't touch typists, for two
reasons:

1) As you say, the home is one character off.

2) If you're a touch typist then 'u','d','l','r' seems as natural as
you can get....
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