keyboard layout

Darax The Good · Post by **Darax The Good** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:59 am

What is up with the keyboard layout for moving. It doesn't make sense to me. The numpad and the arrow keys are fine, but this:

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y   k   u
  \  |  /         
h -- s -- l
  /  |  \   
b   j    n

really confused me. I thought it might be dvorak, but it isn't. It definately isn't a german layout. I'm sure there is a really good reason...help me understand it

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:12 am

That's the "cursor movement keys" used in vi (the text editor)

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:53 am

also, "s" is not stay, "s" is search. And interestingly enough 5 on the keypad is not stay either, but is (at least in the way the gtk client was defaltly configured for me) brace

Darax The Good · Post by **Darax The Good** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:02 pm

Right... vi. My favorite editor

Nothing before or since has been as intuitive.

woo · Post by **woo** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:07 pm

I don't think anyone has ever called vi intuitive

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:23 pm

vi is intuitive, gvim even moreso.

:wq

bort · Post by **bort** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:36 pm

Vi is pretty good for coding, vim is better.
But nothing can beat good ol' ed.

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:31 pm

i[FLAME ALERT]
emacs all the way!
[/FLAME ALERT][esc]:q!

Darax The Good · Post by **Darax The Good** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:02 am

I use visual studio.

your flame alert is nothing compared to mine.

HolyKnight · Post by **HolyKnight** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:39 pm

Don't get me wrong. I have linux boxes and I use Sun V440s and V880s at work. But for the normal person, using the VI cursor keys is cryptic. WOW! how about yui hjk nm, or something. It's bad enough on the Sun Boxes they changed the CTRL and CAP LOCK keys. Hahaha..