Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
Hacker News
APRIL 1, 2024
When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl keys.
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