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by coldtea 2856 days ago
>A large portion of coding is moving the cursor left, right, up, down, page up, page down, home, end. The arrow keys are not even shown on the layout.

From the dawn of time (1/1/1970) or perhaps even earlier, programmers have used home row keys for those actions. In vim for example we map h,j,k,l and so on for such movements...