Thread: Italian keyboard has crippled arrow keys
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vihai is offline vihai
2009-11-16 , 14:58
Posts: 12 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Nov 2009 @ Milan, Italy
#28
Originally Posted by HoX View Post
For vim the answer is "hjkl"... don't you know them?
And for xterm you got left and right, so you can correct what you wrote, but not recover old command easily.
I started using vi on a HP9000 with serial geen phosphore terminals and hjkl were the only way to move the cursor

However they could also be useful for games and I think I will miss them a lot.
I didn't think to games, but yeah, that's a very important point. A game manufacturer could not rely on the presence of such important keys.

I NEVER use the אטלעש because they don't belong to the strict ASCII standard and different text editors behave in different way
Well, in 2009 an application not handling utf-8 and unicode correctly does not have excuses.

I prefer to write a',e',i',o',u'... not "italianally" correct, but strictly standard.
Not correct at all, because ' is an apostrophe, not an accent. ` is an accent but... guess what... it is not present on italian keyboards