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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Whence vi's hjkl?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.013522.24448@convex.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 01:35:22 GMT
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From the keyboard of shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore):
:In article <1991Apr15.021544.19067@umbc3.umbc.edu> rouben@math16.math.umbc.edu () writes:
:>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?
:
:Yup, touch-typists have to shift their right hand one key to the
:left.  I am a touch typist, and after years of using vi my right 
:hand is now permanently stuck with my index finger on 'h'.

Well, I'm a touch typest and I don't do that, because
I seldom use h to move right.  I usually use b or F or T,
possibly with numeric prefixes.

--tom