From: "Patrick Kelly" <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:29:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01ca9c38$70f97a20$52ec6e60$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001231021.aa89158@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On
> Behalf Of John Stalker
> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 5:22 AM
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?
>
> > 2. We already have PageUp/PageDown keys which do the task of paging
> > up/dn, and symmetrically, Home/End to move to the first and last page.
>
> I don't have PageUp/PageDown, but I do have arrow keys. Of course, I'm
> typing this on a laptop. I'm not saying this decision was made for that reason,
> but it's something to consider.
What about Alt+'Direction' for those who don't have such keys?
This way everything works as expected (Law of least astonishment) and yet there is no functionality loss.
> --
> John Stalker
> School of Mathematics
> Trinity College Dublin
> tel +353 1 896 1983
> fax +353 1 896 2282
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-23 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-23 9:15 Yi DAI
2010-01-23 9:35 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-23 9:59 ` Bela Valek
2010-01-23 10:21 ` John Stalker
2010-01-23 14:29 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-01-23 12:37 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-01-23 12:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-23 13:07 ` Yi DAI
2010-01-23 17:13 ` blstuart
2010-01-23 19:01 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-25 17:20 ` maht
2010-01-26 11:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-26 12:26 ` yy
2010-01-26 12:34 ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-26 14:16 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-23 19:10 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-23 19:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-24 0:53 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24 7:08 ` Frederik Caulier
2010-01-24 9:08 ` Yi DAI
2010-01-24 18:03 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 22:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-01-24 18:41 ` John Floren
2010-01-25 9:46 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
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