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[Retr0spectrum]

AFAICT it's only common in for developer-oriented tools that want to be familiar to vi users.

The average writer has probably never seen hjkl navigation before, and it is much harder to get used to than a slightly off-center "i" key.

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Why not use the same pattern as games then?

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I've personally never seen I/JKL before and over the years I've come to believe Vim made the right choice by use HJKL on the 'home row', so I might be biased. I can put my four fingers on all 4 keys at once with HJKL, but I can't with I/JKL.

This is a standard starting position (just shifted over one key left):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/QW...

[mcguire → Retr0spectrum]

Then there's other keyboard layouts. (Dvorak reporting in!) :-)