From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7aee91501001230115q5285b2ebyd2df99db84f6855d@mail.gmail.com> References: <7aee91501001230115q5285b2ebyd2df99db84f6855d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4ecada1e1001230159o796a15c9n1c916e2b004c30e4@mail.gmail.com> From: Bela Valek To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c46f7ba4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I agree, but only because PgDown and PgUp do the same as the Down and Up arrows. Having two pairs of keys doing the same thing on the keyboard is a waste. On the other hand, I found it easy to get used to the Plan 9 approach. Its comfortable for me either way, I only think that this modification would add a new functionality to the interface. 2010/1/23 Yi DAI : > Hi, > > I am new to Plan9. This request sounds quite simple/naive. Don't think that > I dislike the Plan9 ways. I enjoy it a lot. But it doesn't mean that it > needs no improvement/fix, right? > OK, here is my suggestion. We shall fix the use of Up/Dn arrows, I mean, > instead of using it to go one page up/dn, use it to move the cursor up/dn > one line. Here are two reasons for this: > 1. We use Lf/Rt arrows to move the cursor, don't we? Then use Up/Dn to do > the same kind of task is symmetric, and thus more reasonable. > 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. > > EOT > > > -- > DAY >