In vim, why is 'j' used for down and 'k' for up?
问题 I've been using vim for many years and have never really thought about it. A friend of mine asked why that is, noting that in our culture, left would usually map to up while right would map to down, making the vim keys backwards. I understand that they are on the home row, meaning that you do not have to move your fingers anywhere to hit them, but that's a different point altogether. Basically, my question is: does anyone know why these keys were given their present purposes? It would be