They probably existed before that, but vi was one of the first "Rogue" style interfaces. vi's basic design was inspired by Rogue. As far as following the evolutionary tract, you were moving along.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
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