On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0800, Todd Walton spake thusly:
> That's one of the big things.  hjk-and-l don't seem at all intuitive
> to me, and I've had a hard time making them so.  I more often use the
> arrow keys.

Don't think of them as hjk-and-l. You'll never get anywhere with vi like
that. It's like learning a foreign language. You don't want to learn that
perro (in spanish) means dog (in english). You want to associate the idea
of a dog with perro and leave english out of it. Similarly forget that key
with the h has an h on it. Remember that it is to the left of the others
and it is the key that makes the cursor go left. Similar with l. Next is j
and I think up before down and j comes before k on the keyboard etc. I
don't really even think about how the keys are positioned relative to each
other anymore, I just know that the key in that position goes in that
direction and my fingers now move the cursor without even thinking just
like you associate dog with what a dog is in your mind without doing any
translation. Or do as Stewart suggested play some larn. :) 

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