In vim, why is 'j' used for down and 'k' for up?

Question

I\'ve been using vim for many years and have never really thought about it. A friend of mine asked why that is, noting that in our culture, left would usually map to up while ri

Answer 1

I always thought it was because on the DVORAK layout, j and k are also next to each other. There's not many keys that have this property on both DVORAK and A/QWERTY/Z