Re: vim-mnemonics for hjkl.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:12 PM 'JB' via vim_use
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> The mnemonic I used for J and K when I first started was J[ump] and K[ite]. H is on the left and L is on the right as pointed out by another user.
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> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 2:14 AM, hongy...@gmail.com <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I noticed the following mnemonics for vim shortcut keys from <https://gist.github.com/iambrj/1e4de522ef5dcf13f530bb4b58cd9b32>:
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> h: left
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> j: down
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> k: up
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> l: right
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> </quote>
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> But I still can't figure out the correspondence between their literal representation and the operations of them. Any hints will be highly appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> HY

As others pointed out, whatever memory trick works for you, use it.
With the h j k l keys near the middle of the most used Latin keyboard
layouts, not only QWERTY but also AZERTY and QWERTZ, h is the leftmost
of them and l the rightmost. For the other two, what I use is this:
lowercase j has a downward-pointing tail and lowercase k has an
upward-pointing one.

Also, now that all keyboards have arrow keys, Vim supports them; but
this means that in Normal mode, j and ↓, k and ↑ are synonymous. I
defined the following mappings to have ↓ and ↑ move by screen lines
while j and k move by file lines (which is different when 'wrap' is
on):

" move by screen lines with ↑ ↓, by file lines (Vim default) with k j
" but not in Insert mode, where hjkl insert a letter
:map <Up> gk
:map <Down> gj

Best regards,
Tony.

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