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		olddustytrail on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: '' in Vim moves cursor to recent line > By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive Actually it's very intuitive, because ^ and $ mean start/end of line in regex.

aloe_falsa on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

On a similar note: the P and V semaphore operation names are very intuitive, because passering means "pass" and vrijgave means "release" in Dutch, as clearly noted by Edsger Dijkstra.

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