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by lisp_padawan 6464 days ago
that's because 'm' is used for marquee, which allows both rectangular and elliptical as well as single pixel column (vertical and horizontal) selections.

'v' is used because 'm' is already taken and 'v' does make sense for the moVe command, especially if you stress the second syllable

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