begin quoting JD Runyan as of Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:27:32PM -0600: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >Nope. Didn't say that vi didn't have a lot to memorize. But I can come > >up with mnemonics for the vi commands (aside from hjkl which I learned > >from Rogue long before I ever saw vi) and don't have to learn so much > >at once. > > Since the key bindings came from rogue, you just followed the natural > progression of things.
I'm pretty sure rogue used 'em 'cuz they were the key-movement keys on a lot of terminals. I recall using green-screen terminals with the arrow keys on the front of the hjkl keys. -Stewart "Rogue gave us hjkl *and* curses!" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
