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: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:41:07 -0500 Message-ID: <7d3530221001241041h67e1aeake5a0511d3a309cbd@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c6120454-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Yi DAI wrote: > 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. This is the behavior of Acme-SAC, as I recall, so one would think such a change should be easy to do (since it's already been done in the inferno version). That said, I hate that behavior; it's probably easy to fix but it's one of the reasons I don't use Acme-SAC much. If you go back in the archives, you'll find post by myself and others about very similar things. These days, the only thing I might ask would be Ctrl-P to bring back previous commands, simply because it can be annoying scrolling all the way back up above very verbose output (i.e. I screw up some complex command, read the man page, get to the bottom, then don't want to go back to the top to find my command again so I can fix it). John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike