Den lör 6 feb. 2021 kl 23:39 skrev Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>:

On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Mary Ann Horton wrote:

> 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.

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