And the home directory is aliased to ~ in UNIX-like systems because the tilde key doubled as the Home key.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The point of using hjkl is to navigate while keeping your fingers on the home row and without moving your fingers to other positions

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Oh, I know. I've been using VI since 1992. I was just wondering, given that wasd is the popular navigation format now thanks to gaming, if VI would have been coded differently today.

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