Then the question becomes, is there a reason those control characters correspond...

philh on March 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

Then the question becomes, is there a reason those control characters correspond to those letters? I have a hard time imagining a world where BS is ^Q and VT is ^V and therefore the arrow keys are spread out all over the keyboard.