onsdag den 1. juli 2015

why VIM uses "h,j,k,l" for navigation

The UNIX equivalent to race wars can be found in terminal text editors. And even though i have been using both nano and VIM for a fair amount of time, it was not until today that i actually learned that the navigation keys in VIM of h,j,k,l was not implemented to create some sort of hipster elite, but rather it came to be due to the fact that VIM used the keyboard layout from the "ADM-3A" terminal that had secondary arrow keys mapped to the h,j,k,l keys.