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> so J is down. I think? And so on... My middle finger rests on the up key, so K goes up? Nope, j is down. J combines the current line with the next line, red
by Izkata 3y ago
> so J is down. I think? And so on... My middle finger rests on the up key, so K goes up?
Nope, j is down. J combines the current line with the next line, reducing whitespace between to 1 space.
Back when I first figured out what J was doing (having typo'd it regularly) I thought it was useless, then one day I just started reflexively using it when manipulating function arguments.
Likewise, k is up, K looks up the word under the cursor in a man page.
- pxeger1 3y agoI think they were using uppercase to make the keys stand out, but they know they're not used with the shift key.
- d-lisp 3y agoFor their defence, keyboards are annotated with uppercase letters.
- fuzztester 3y ago>Nope, j is down. J combines the current line with the next line, reducing whitespace between to 1 space. And so J stands for Join (the next line to the current line), IIRC.