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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by Izkata on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:42AM (#37019547)
> so J is down. I think? And so on... My middle finger rests on the up key, so K goes up?

Nope, j is down. J combines the current line with the next line, reducing whitespace between to 1 space.

Back when I first figured out what J was doing (having typo'd it regularly) I thought it was useless, then one day I just started reflexively using it when manipulating function arguments.

Likewise, k is up, K looks up the word under the cursor in a man page.

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by pxeger1 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:03AM (#37019613)
I think they were using uppercase to make the keys stand out, but they know they're not used with the shift key.
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by d-lisp on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:58AM (#37031136)
For their defence, keyboards are annotated with uppercase letters.
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by fuzztester on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:39AM (#37020659)
>Nope, j is down. J combines the current line with the next line, reducing whitespace between to 1 space.

And so J stands for Join (the next line to the current line), IIRC.

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