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From: "Patrick Kelly" <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:29:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?
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> -----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?
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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.

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> John Stalker
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> Trinity College Dublin
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