Subj : Re: SlyEdit
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Dec 04 2025 07:01:26

-=> Accession wrote to phigan <=-

 > I may have told this story before, but I'm very much used to not always
 > being in edit mode. Often I will find myself trying to "arrow" around
 > with h, j, k, and l in things like Notepad. Well, one time I was typing

 Ac> That's something that would take me forever to get used to, as well.
 Ac> Those letters are all side by side. At the very least, they could have
 Ac> used the gaming keys (w, a, s, d), but alas. I like using the actual
 Ac> arrow keys these days. :)

That was Bill Joy's personal preference. He's said that vi wasn't
intended for public consumption - if he knew it was going to be
released, he would have spent more time polishing it!


 
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