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Jun 15, 2013, 3:48:07 PM6/15/13

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I had no idea!

"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!"

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys/

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