On 2/20/07, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Laurent :)* vim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > The idea behind using h/j/k/l is to avoid moving your hand/wrist too > often while going back and forth between your keyboard and the arrow set > (although the use of h/j/k/l might have originated for other reasons > back in the old 'vi' days). Hitting ESC doesn't make your wrist move? I may have a very small hand, but I have to move my left hand for hitting ESC. 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.
The keyboard on which the original author of vi (Bill Joy) worked indeed did not have the arrow keys. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi for the layout and the name of the keyboard. Yakov
