TIL Vim uses hjkl keys for cursor movement because they doubled as arrows keys on Bill Joy's original keyboard.
TIL Vim uses hjkl keys for cursor movement because they doubled as arrows keys on Bill Joy's original keyboard.
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Here is why vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Natu...
And the home directory is aliased to ~ in UNIX-like systems because the tilde key doubled as the Home key.