Emacs or Vi? Why the answer is neither.

Ary Manzana ary at esperanto.org.ar
Wed Apr 25 16:54:19 PDT 2012


On 4/26/12 1:08 AM, F i L wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 06:31:36 UTC, Mirko Pilger wrote:
>>> Don't you have to move your hands away from "home position" to use the
>>> arrow keys to move around with a keyboard anyways?
>>
>> text navigation is done in the command mode via the h, j, k and l keys.
>
> I see, that makes a bit more sense. Though, you still have to move your
> hand to Esc to exit input mode, though admittedly, that's not as far a
> reach (idk about on non-US keyboard layouts). Or maybe there's an
> alternative key for that as well that I'm not aware of.

Many people have the shortcut jj as an alternative to Esc. You never 
move your hand from the keyboard. :-P

(and I never needed to type jj anyways...)


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