Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 11/14/06, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not quite convinced of the merit of that behaviour. The most direct
> consequence is that it makes sam inconsistent with acme and rio windows.

But maybe rio and acme are wrong.

I guess we can worry about internal consistency in plan 9, but fact
is, in the rest of the known universe, uparrow goes up a line,
downarrow goes down, they move the cursor.

We've got page up and page down; we could always use them. It was bad
enough when right arrow and left arrow did what they did ....

If we're halfway to readline, well, then, maybe people want it, and we
should have it, and not having it was a mistake all along.  You should
be different if it makes sense; otherwise, don't.

But the worst thing we can do is fall into the 'it's always worked
this way' mantra. At that point, you might as well be a Fortran
programmer.

ron