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montroser
9 months ago
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi ...
So interesting to see how the ADM-3A keyboard layout itself was such a fundamental influence for ESC and hjkl movement in vi.
kps
9 months ago
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And that I suspect originates with ASCII Control-H = backspace (cursor left), Control-J = line feed (cursor down). Control-K and Control-L don't match but weren't so important that they couldn't be repurposed by an early display terminal.
sudahtigabulan
9 months ago
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Yep. It's all in the manual.
https://archive.org/details/ADM-3A-User-Reference-Manual-Apr...
(This page, and Figure 1-3 below).
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