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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: h,j,k,l in vi
Message-ID: <338@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 13:20:25 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.338
Posted: Thu Feb 21 13:20:25 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 09:16:58 EST
References: <8242@brl-tgr.ARPA> <726@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <726@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob) writes:
>
>>If you have ever seen an adm-3a terminal you will know where h,j,k,l come
>>from. Those keys had arrows on the keys and ^h,^j,^k,^l moved the cursor
>>appropriately. Those keys also control the movement of worm(6).
>
>The adm-3 I used didn't *have* arrow keys :-). Yes, I know where those key
>choices came from. That's not a good reason to force them on other people.
>
	But 'vi' *doesn't* force h,j,k,l cursor control on you.
Every version of it that I have ever seen also supports the *real*
arrow keys on terminals that have them.  Why not use them if you
don't like the ADM3-a approach.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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