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Re:Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys by philh on Friday March 09, 2012 @01:12PM (#3685225)
Then the question becomes, is there a reason those control characters correspond to those letters? I have a hard time imagining a world where BS is ^Q and VT is ^V and therefore the arrow keys are spread out all over the keyboard.
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