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   Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 05:44:45 JST Alex P. 👹

   you gotta admit the "HJKL" thing is heinous and unintuitive:

   when editing text in most languages,

   Left and Up are the two "backward" directions

   Right and Down are the two "forward" directions

   but it places Down (J) next to Left and Up (K) next to Right

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 05:44:44 JST silverwizard

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     @saddestrobots Honestly, it feels like a hack from people who were slaves to the home row, and the speed at which is works while not moving my hands from typing position feels really good to me.

     I think people use "unintuitive" to mean "bad" a lot and I think it's one of those cases where it's stuck because when you figure it out it works *well*

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:06:55 JST silverwizard

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     @saddestrobots Oh, I actually don't see it. I like them interleaved. I dunno why. Probably stockholm syndrome.
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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:06:56 JST Alex P. 👹

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard
     i get not moving your fingers; my point is that J and K should have had their values reversed

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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:30:35 JST Alex P. 👹

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard
     i definitely got the computer stockhold syndrome about a lot of things

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