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AFAICT it's only common in for developer-oriented tools that want to be familiar to vi users. The average writer has probably never seen hjkl navigation before
by Retr0spectrum 9y ago
AFAICT it's only common in for developer-oriented tools that want to be familiar to vi users.
The average writer has probably never seen hjkl navigation before, and it is much harder to get used to than a slightly off-center "i" key.
- dmix 9y agoWhy not use the same pattern as games then? W A/S/D I've personally never seen I/JKL before and over the years I've come to believe Vim made the right choice by use HJKL on the 'home row', so I might be biased. I can put my four fingers on all 4 keys at once with HJKL, but I can't with I/JKL. This is a standard starting position (just shifted over one key left): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/QWERTY-home-keys-position.svg/2000px-QWERTY-home-keys-position.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/QW...
- mcguire 9y agoThen there's other keyboard layouts. (Dvorak reporting in!) :-)