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Glyptodon on May 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

I hate VI not defaulting to wasd for movement like every other single piece of software I used growing up... (e.g. Quake, Marathon...) Ha ha ha. (Or should my games have used hjkl)?

dllthomas on May 24, 2017 [–]

As I recall, both Quake and Marathon defaulted to arrow keys for movement. Half-Life was the first time I encountered WASD out-of-the-box.

> (Or should my games have used hjkl)?

I still play a game that does...

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