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Never touched a CMX, with the EditDroid being the oldest I ever saw and it had a trackball/scrub knob. But the vi keybindings are directly from the LSI ADM 3A
by nyrikki 2y ago
Never touched a CMX, with the EditDroid being the oldest I ever saw and it had a trackball/scrub knob.
But the vi keybindings are directly from the LSI ADM 3A terminal, which is what Bill Joy wrote vi on.
It had overloaded hjkl for the arrow keys compared to it's predecessors like the 7700A and successor 3A+ that had dedicated arrow keys.
The fact that Home/~ were the same key thus ~ being your home directory and that esc was where the tab key is on modern keyboards explains a lot about the vi keybindings.