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He didn't say anything, but his email had the telltale :wq from someone with unshakable VI muscle memory at the end :)

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[–] themikeyj 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't tell you how many slack messages I've deleted that were either ":wq" or "jjjkkkkhhhllll"

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“jjjkkkkhhhllll”

You know, I've been using VI for 30+ years and I always hated hjkl. I use them when I have to, but basically I need arrows to move around. I can't stand dropping out of insert mode to move the cursor, and the muscle memory drives me nuts. But hjkl is nice to have as a backup when nothing else works.

[–] Still@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

on my custom board the arrow keys are in a separate layer on top of hjkl

I’ve done this on teams on a couple of occasions 🤦‍♂️