Schöne Grüße
Niels > On 2. Mar 2021, at 12:08, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > >> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 02:14:29 -0800 (PST) >> "hongy...@gmail.com" <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I noticed the following mnemonics for vim shortcut keys from >> <https://gist.github.com/iambrj/1e4de522ef5dcf13f530bb4b58cd9b32>: >> >> <quote> >> >> h: left >> >> j: down >> >> k: up >> >> l: right >> >> </quote> >> >> But I still can't figure out the correspondence between their literal >> representation and the operations of them. Any hints will be highly >> appreciated. > > I think it's mostly a matter of ease. It's all done from touch typist > home position, with one hand. Back then there was no mouse, so they > chose the right hand, dominant on the majority of people, as that hand. > I'd guess if mice had existed universally when vi was created, the > cursor keys would have been done by the left hand so the user could > keep his or her right hand on the mouse. > > I think the mnemonics were in the fingers, not in the brain. Iirc the keyboard the original was developed in had even arrow-symbols in hjkl It is more about the original keyboard than mnemonics or touch typing I think. Same reason for Escape to switch between modes which was on that keyboard where caps lock is today. Niels -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/939A4317-B2EF-4128-82F2-5D1342C15582%40kobschaetzki.net.
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