Reports from one guy who says he is a lifelong republican?

Exactly. It’s more like rough 30% of eligible voters. Fact is that roughly 47% didn’t vote.

This is the terminal that was used by the creator of vi, Bill Joy.

It should be obvious on why those keys were used. They weren’t “mapped” they literally were the arrow keys. It’s hard to change defaults. Anyone who knows vi keybinding and install work on vim or any other system.

It would be easy for you to change your own keybindings. Why is there a need to change everyone’s default and break existing muscle memory.

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