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From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Whence vi's hjkl?
Message-ID: <767@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 18 Apr 91 10:14:05 GMT
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soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) writes:
:alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
:>2) If you're a touch typist then 'u','d','l','r' seems as natural as
:>you can get....
:
:Ahhh, but this implied the typist had to be English.  If he were Malay
:or Indonesian, it would be 'Atas', 'Bawah', 'Kiri', 'Kanan'
:(unfortunately, I don't know of an easy word which describes "left"
:and "right" with a different first letter.)  I wonder what they would
:be in other languages?

Italian has Sinistra (left) and Destra (right), clearly a language designed
for Wordstar with its Ctrl-S for left and Ctrl-D for right [unfortunately
this does not generalize to E and X...:-].
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