Adarsh Pandit

Software Developer

The History of HJKL

By Adarsh Pandit in vim

ADM-3A

When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history!

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