> The VI keyboard shortcuts only make logical sense on a specific Tektronix 4014 terminal that was popular at the time: 46 years ago. vi is more than hjkl, and

> The VI keyboard shortcuts only make logical sense on a specific Tektronix 4014 terminal that was popular at the time: 46 years ago. vi is more than hjkl, and those four non-mnemonic keybindings make up for it by being extremely easy to press for QWERTY users. The vast majority of other commands are perfectly “reasonable” (easy to memorize and not dependent on any antiquated hardware) — append, backward word, change, delete, end of word, find letter, go to (OK, this one is just an arbitrary prefix), and so forth.