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From: rem@remsit.UUCP (Roger Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Memory devices (Was: Looking for a Simple Text Editor)
Message-ID: <499@remsit.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 10:04:19 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM> <640005@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rem@remsit.UUCP (Roger Murray)
Organization: REM's IT, Santa Monica, CA
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In article <640005@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>It looks like you picked the easy ones.  Would you care to explain
>what [hjkl] are supposed to stand for?

I remember them this way:
     h -> CTRL-H (backspace [left])
     j -> CTRL-J (line feed [next line])
     k -> CTRL-K (which is what an Apple //e or //c up-arrow key generates)
     l -> It's the one on the right.  :-)
-- 
Roger Murray
"Look ma!  No ihnp4!"  :-)
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