Re: h j k l -- keys

On 16/12/11 14:34, rameo wrote:
[...]
> I checked other national keyboards, they are almost all the same as
> the US keyboard.
[...]

Almost… but not exactly, even if we don't count Dvorak keyboards, which
are vastly different.

English-language keyboards are QWERTY, French-language keyboards are
AZERTY, German-language keyboards are QWERTZ, and, surprise! in addition
to AQSWYZ the position of the M key also varies, and punctuation keys
even more so: see at
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm an example of
an AZERTY keyboard, and notice that the semicolon is definitely not to
the right of the L.

Maybe I should argue that, 30 years or so ago, Vi should have used jklm
instead of hjkl — but I won't. At least the tails of j and k point in
different directions.

Best regards,
Tony.
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