I used a scroll knob to move up and down (and left and right) on my Blackberry i...

kragen on March 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

I used a scroll knob to move up and down (and left and right) on my Blackberry in 2000, and it was awesome. It's dramatically better than using arrow keys. It's a real shame the original CRT terminals didn't have scroll knobs. It would have dramatically improved the usability of computers throughout the 1970s and 80s.