Re:Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
by ScottBurson on Friday March 09, 2012 @02:51PM
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Actually, on a Teletype, VT went down, not up. (Vertical tab stops were settable only in hardware on most models.) And FF, which went to the top of the next page, is obviously unrelated to going right. So the correspondence was really just suggested by BS and LF; it was apparently some terminal manufacturer's idea to put up and right on the next two keys.
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Re:Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
by kragen on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:21PM
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As far as I know, this was Lear Siegler's invention; I don't know of any other terminals from the era that use ^K and ^L for "move up" and "move right". (Someone did mention that ^K and ^L did do that on the ADM-3A, right?)