begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:00:38AM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >By the time I tried vi in 1992, I'd been playing rogue and roguelikes > >heavily for five years. The hjkl movement keys were muscle-memory by then. > > Oh, please, *everybody* using UNIX in the 1985-1995 timeframe has hjkl > bound to muscle memory because of nethack.
I was a latecomer to nethack; even now, I've won at rogue, larn, ularn, but never at nethack. I didn't seriously sit down in front of a UNIX box until 1992. > The problem is that you also wind up with yubn *also* bound to muscle > memory. I've *almost* quit trying to make the vi cursor move diagonally. > > ;) Heh. That's what happens when you train up in nethack instead of rogue. -- Nine rooms, each no more than four by nine, one stair down, one stair up. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
