Hi Yakov :)
* Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On 2/20/07, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I suspect that the main reason behind the hjkl (which is very
> >unnatural for me, the arrows have a much better design with the
> >inverted T at least IMHO) was that the first keyboards used to
> >develop/use vi probably hadn't arrow keys, or they were very far at
> >the right of the keyboard.
>
> The keyboard on which the original author of vi (Bill Joy) worked
> indeed did not have the arrow keys. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi for the layout and the name of the
> keyboard.
Oh, my loved Wikipedia ;) I forgot to take a look to see if the Vi
entry had this kind of trivia data. Thanks for the link!
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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