I tend to use Vim as my editor of choice. Even when using Visual Studio, I do so with the ViEmu plugin. I have always wondered why the directional keys were hjkl instead of jkl;. The latter are the home keys for the right hand. The former are not and overload the right index finger. Thanks to Hacker News, I now know the answer. The terminal which Bill Joy wrote the original Vi on was an ADM-3A and that had arrows drawn on the hjkl keys (see the link for a picture).
Reminds me of the "Mom I remembered to cut off the ends of the turkey" story.
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