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A comment on Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2010).

Re:Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2... by MatthewPhillips on Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:27PM (#5493871)
I've been using vim for a few years and I still use the arrow keys; see no reason to ever stop doing so. Too many people treat their text editor of choice as a religion and see the need to prove their devotion by embracing every difference it contains.
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Re:Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2... by jamesbritt on Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:33PM (#5493925)
see no reason to ever stop doing so.

Plausible reason: hands do not leave the home row, so you can type faster.

That said, I switch between letters and arrows depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes the arrows just seem more natural.

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