h,j,k,l in vi

Howard Johnson howard at cyb-eng.UUCP
Thu Feb 21 04:58:22 AEST 1985


> The point is that you never have to take your fingers off the letter keys
> to move the cursor.  I have never used a terminal where the arrow keys were
> more easily accessible than h,j,k and l.  In addition, if you tend to use
> a variety of terminals (as I do), the placement of arrow keys never becomes
> ingrained, but I can usually count on QWERTY.

I knew someone would like h,j,k,l for the same reasons that I do.
-- 
	Howard Johnson		Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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