I think you nailed it there. Some background which backs up your assertions:
I use hjkl for navigation in vi as it's the lowest common denominator. It's always there. I use vim these days (with syntax highlighting!), but I barely get past the basic "classic vi" command set.
I came from a VMS, RISCiX, SunOS and Solaris background and I generally tend not to use conveniences that often. I'm mindful with respect to portability having had to move code from HPUX en-masse which wasn't fun. The plus side is scripts that I wrote in 1994 still work fine :-)
I'm not a fan of easy - only a fan of simple, elegant and right.
I use hjkl for navigation in vi as it's the lowest common denominator. It's always there. I use vim these days (with syntax highlighting!), but I barely get past the basic "classic vi" command set.
I came from a VMS, RISCiX, SunOS and Solaris background and I generally tend not to use conveniences that often. I'm mindful with respect to portability having had to move code from HPUX en-masse which wasn't fun. The plus side is scripts that I wrote in 1994 still work fine :-)
I'm not a fan of easy - only a fan of simple, elegant and right.