Editors and keyboards - blinkkin/blinkkin.github.com GitHub Wiki

Vi editor (cheap terminals used at UC Berkeley):

adm3a-keyboard

  • No arrows (HJKL)
  • ESC position (TAB place)
  • No ALT and CTRL is hard to access
  • No Backspace and DEL

Emacs editor (Lisp machines at MIT's AI Lab):

adm3a-keyboard

  • No arrows
  • CTRL and Meta is easy to access
  • No DEL and Backspace is hard to access

XEDIT editor (terminals connected to mainframes at IBM):

ibm-keyboard

  • PF1-PF24 keys
  • Additional meta-keys