Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys - good coders code, great reuse

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Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys Posted: 09 Mar 2012 07:27 AM PST I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used hjkl keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A computer, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. That's the whole story. Here is how the hjkl keys looked: Lear Siegler's ADM-3A computer keyboard's hjkl keys with arrows. And here is the whole computer that vi was created on: Lear Siegler's ADM-3A computer.

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