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Vi was made for a keyboard without arrows, which is why it has hjkl instead.

Actually, vi was made for a keyboard with arrow keys - the arrow keys were non-dedicated and used the HJKL keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys#HJKL_keys

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