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That's good advice, but in all practical situations I have been able to use Vim directly or know enough vi to get by, though I am much less comfortable with it.
by Grimm665 7y ago
That's good advice, but in all practical situations I have been able to use Vim directly or know enough vi to get by, though I am much less comfortable with it.
I don't touch type, so hjkl, even though I understand the benefits, has never been my preference. Perhaps it's the gamer in me, I've never had trouble using the arrow keys :)
- kburman 7y agoAs far as I know, hjkl was first introduced in games and later used in vim because we don't have to move our hands far away from the keys. Feel free to correct me If I'm wrong.
- thegeekpirate 7y agohttps://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys
- dllthomas 7y agoOne neat thing this misses is that in ASCII, H is left, CTRL-H is backspace (which goes left while doing a thing); J is down, CTRL-J is linefeed (which goes down while doing a thing, sorta). It ends there, unfortunately - I don't see a good connection between vertical tab and up or formfeed and right.