Timeline for Keyboard shortcuts, phase one
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| S Apr 10, 2020 at 17:24 | history | suggested | Cadoiz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2011 at 12:02 | comment | added | brunnerh | @KevinVermeer: Well, it was just an example, j + u would be better of course, but if you want to have vertical layout you will always have one key off, so it's a tradeoff between speed and mapping. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 11:57 | comment | added | Kevin Vermeer |
I'd be against switching to y and h - Those aren't on my home row! Choosing j and k was not a thoughtless decision.
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| Aug 19, 2011 at 13:20 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Felix: Being stuck with a bad layout due to a thoughtless design decision in some popular software is sad... | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 13:15 | comment | added | Felix |
It's because in vi you move between lines with j and k. And vi(m) is awesome... ;) (or maybe it's because people like to play nethack (and I assume nethack has it from vi)).
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| Aug 17, 2011 at 21:30 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | I'd be the first to switch j and k, but these semantics (even if they don't make sense to me) are kind of a standard. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 19:31 | history | answered | brunnerh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |