On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:12 PM 'JB' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > The mnemonic I used for J and K when I first started was J[ump] and K[ite]. H > is on the left and L is on the right as pointed out by another user. > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 2:14 AM, 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. > > > Regards, > > HY
As others pointed out, whatever memory trick works for you, use it. With the h j k l keys near the middle of the most used Latin keyboard layouts, not only QWERTY but also AZERTY and QWERTZ, h is the leftmost of them and l the rightmost. For the other two, what I use is this: lowercase j has a downward-pointing tail and lowercase k has an upward-pointing one. Also, now that all keyboards have arrow keys, Vim supports them; but this means that in Normal mode, j and ↓, k and ↑ are synonymous. I defined the following mappings to have ↓ and ↑ move by screen lines while j and k move by file lines (which is different when 'wrap' is on): " move by screen lines with ↑ ↓, by file lines (Vim default) with k j " but not in Insert mode, where hjkl insert a letter :map <Up> gk :map <Down> gj Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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/CAJkCKXutm-3849YD-mRG8xpd2F1B_wR31M0dDisHX8oJohZTmw%40mail.gmail.com.
