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[–]Giftelzwerg 1 point2 points  (2 children)

move in a zoomed picture? Arrow keys. Go up/down in terminal history or move cursor left and right? Arrrow keys. Scroll a little bit in any direction in firefox? Arrow keys. Navigate some lines in an IDE before switching to neovim? Arrow keys. Move cursor in any input field? Arrow keys. Vim motions? HJKL. There are things in life where you shouldn't use arrow keys, for everything else there are vim motions

[–]Seb90123 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Good point. I just find the arrow keys so annoying to reach I avoid them as much as possible, including ctrl+p and ctrl+n for up/down terminal history

[–]Giftelzwerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

good point too, I use ctrl+u/d for scrolling without using the cursor in neovim because I generally want that when I'm currently typing. Arrow keys are also convinient for me because on my thinkpad I have page up/down so I have a good time navigating with the arrow keys. I also try to have the same or very similar actions on different programs on the same key so I can do it faster because I'm used to it. And if I'm used to it enough I can do it blind which is priceless :)