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From: dgy@sigmast.UUCP (Dave Yearke)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Summary: Vi cursor keys are easier to hit.
Message-ID: <611@sigmast.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 21:24:44 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM> <640005@hpcvca.HP.COM> <814@kuling.UUCP>
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In article <814@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide) writes:
=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 the four following are supposed to stand for?
=>	k  previous-line	keep moving back?  :-{
=>	j  next-line		jump forward?	   :-/
=>	l  forward-character	lunge? or launch?  :-)
=>	h  backward-character	harken back?	   :-]
=These keys are the ones which you use as arrow keys on
=certain (older) terminals (ADM?). On newer terminals you use
=the normal arrow keys, of course.

Mnemonics issues aside, I find the Emacs cursor keys very difficult
to type.  The nice thing about vi's cursor keys is that your fingers
do not have to leave the home row.  Using the arrow keys slows me down
even more, as I prefer to keep my fingers near the home row.  Does
anyone have "easier" mappings for the Emacs keys?

BTW, has anyone thought about how using either editor would be easier/
more difficult on a Dvorak keyboard?  Vi would be strange ...

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