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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by unfunco on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:50PM (#15405429)
hjkl are the minimum keys needed to be able to move anywhere in vi[m], they're certainly not pointless.
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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by systoll on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:10AM (#15406646)
Vim supports the cursor keys, even in insert mode.

Assuming the new Vim user already knows how those work, telling them that they instead need to go `Esc -> hjkl -> i` and ending things there... that's going to leave them worse off in Vim than saying nothing.

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