Hi Gene :)
* Gene Kwiecinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >I suspect that the main reason behind the hjkl (which is very
> >unnatural for me, the arrows have a much better design with the
> inverted
> >T at least IMHO) was that the first keyboards used to develop/use vi
> >probably hadn't arrow keys, or they were very far at the right of the
> >keyboard.
>
> Pretty much so. Early dumbterminals (think ADM-3a and similar
> critters) didn't have arrow keys, but they *did* go so far as to have
> little arrow marks on the keycaps themselves, underneath the letters,
> on -- you guessed it -- h/j/k/l.
I did see this in an old Ultrix terminal. Don't ask me which model,
because this was back in the university and I don't remember. I just
remember vi from that machine and was very painful. I was used to
"boxer", a DOS editor (very powerful for 1992, I must say), so original
vi didn't fit my expectations ;))
> Hit *control* instead, for ^H (backspace), ^J (linefeed), ^K (vertical
> tab), and ^L (formfeed), and you get the cursor motions
> left/down/up/right, respectively.
Thanks! I always wondered why those letters where control chars for
movements (or quasi-movements) :))
> Gawd, I feel old...
Me too XDD Nice answer, you've provided a couple of very useful
information, at least for me (I'm *very* curious) ;)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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