Den lör 6 feb. 2021 kl 23:39 skrev Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>:

> On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
>
> > At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi
> > commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right
> > under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but
> > when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a
> > line of grad students made me put it back.
>
> I'm not surprised :-)  We were all playing "rogue" back then.  And my
> favourite terminal was indeed the ADM-3A; it just seemed to be designed
> for Unix, with the ESC key in the right place etc.
>

I'm probably a youngster in this crowd (no, I'm not calling you old farts,
more like people with a long history I respect and am willing to learn
from). Born in 1980. But I had similar reasons for feeling at home with
hjkl. In the 1980s (I think before I even started school) I got my hands on
what was then called HACK for MS-DOS, which of course later became NetHack.
So by the time I started playing with Linux and other *nixes in 2000, I
didn't have any real learning curve with basic vi usage.

Niklas