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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: h,j,k,l in vi
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 13:58:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 13:58:22 1985
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> The point is that you never have to take your fingers off the letter keys
> to move the cursor.  I have never used a terminal where the arrow keys were
> more easily accessible than h,j,k and l.  In addition, if you tend to use
> a variety of terminals (as I do), the placement of arrow keys never becomes
> ingrained, but I can usually count on QWERTY.

I knew someone would like h,j,k,l for the same reasons that I do.
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	Howard Johnson		Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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