On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 01:03 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 05:42:44PM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:35 PM James Szinger <jszinger@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > ... > > > > > > I first encountered UNIX after years of using VMS, IBM > > > mainframes, and > > > a plethora of personal computers. They ALL had editors better > > > than > > > vi. Who writes an editor where the arrow keys don’t work! > > > > > > > Someone with a serial terminal with no arrow keys, or arrow keys > > that > > did not work consistently between differing terminal types. > > > > And the design intent was to allow one to hit esc and use hjkl as > > arrow keys without removing your hands from the home keys so one > > could > > continue touch typing. > > There was another aspect of the hjkl pattern. The control > equivalents > of those keys ^H, ^J, ^K, ^L, were the codes that moved the cursor on > the adm3a terminal Bill Joy was using when he first developed the > visual mode of his ex editor. IIRC this is also where the termcap database originated, in order to allow adapting to the multiple proprietary control schemes implemented by terminal manufacturers. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
