7 Feb
2021
7 Feb
'21
4:47 a.m.
Den lör 6 feb. 2021 kl 23:39 skrev Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>:
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
I'm probably a youngster in this crowd (no, I'm not calling you old farts,
more like people with a long history I respect and am willing to learn
from). Born in 1980. But I had similar reasons for feeling at home with
hjkl. In the 1980s (I think before I even started school) I got my hands on
what was then called HACK for MS-DOS, which of course later became NetHack.
So by the time I started playing with Linux and other *nixes in 2000, I
didn't have any real learning curve with basic vi usage.
Niklas
At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch
typist. That's why vi
commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right
under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but
when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a
line of grad students made me put it back.
I'm not surprised :-) We were all playing "rogue" back then. And my
favourite terminal was indeed the ADM-3A; it just seemed to be designed
for Unix, with the ESC key in the right place etc.