2016年8月24日 · Nobe4's answer is great, and explains why we use hjkl very well. However, it's really interesting to see the full keyboard, and a lot of strange things about vim make more …

2023年6月16日 · Vi used hjkl because its creator's keyboard didn't have physical cursor keys. Instead, the arrows were printed on the hjkl keys. The arrow keys were printed on hjkl because …

2012年7月29日 · The thing is that you start out using the "hjkl" key just as a slightly better way to move your cursor, but the truth is that they are actually motions. h motions one character left; j …

2017年7月5日 · (The same is true in a couple of other places, for instance you can use left/right arrows to move around within a command or search/replace you are typing, but you cannot …

hjkl is better than jkl; because it mitigates the pinky overload, if you are resting your hands on j and typing properly h and j are to be typed with the index finger, k with the middle finger and l …

It was too much of a hassle to constantly move my hand to the arrow keys, so I came up with an easy way to practice hjkl. I thought you guys might appreciate it. Play any snake game (I used …

2021年11月12日 · Vi used hjkl because its creator's keyboard didn't have physical cursor keys. Instead, the arrows were printed on the hjkl keys. The arrow keys were printed on hjkl because …

2022年6月29日 · The hjkl keys are not used that often by the average Vimmer (in particular the h and l keys); we instead use more specific or more efficient motions. The ; key itself (used to …

2014年11月3日 · hjkl are only marginally better than the arrows while Vim's more advanced motions, bBeEwWfFtT,;/?^$ and so on, offer a huge advantage over the arrows and hjkl. …

2013年9月8日 · Now, why the designers of that particular keyboard put the directional keys on hjkl and not on jkl; is another question and an interesting one at that. I don't know the answer to …