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As I understand it, vi's author, Bill Joy, used a terminal that placed arrow symbols on hjkl because it did not have dedicated arrow keys. Wikipedia backs up t
by qxb 15y ago
As I understand it, vi's author, Bill Joy, used a terminal that placed arrow symbols on hjkl because it did not have dedicated arrow keys.
Wikipedia backs up this story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJKL_keys#HJKL_keys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJKL_keys#HJKL_keys