Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch

["Joey Makar" <makarjo@gmail.com>]

Well, I am a long time vi user :)  I do understand why Plan9 is
mouse-based, I plan on picking up a copy of 'Tog on Interface', it's
just the behavior of the up/down keys were too jarring for me and page
up/down does the same thing anyways.

I don't use acme, but for rio windows making the up/down keys scroll
seems ok to me because the cursor would normally be on the bottom line
anyways.

To each his own :)

Joey


On 11/14/06, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
> Perhaps you long for a line printer and ^j and ^k or have played too
> much nethack :)
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> Using up arrow and down arrow to scroll is IMHO (eventually) a better plan.
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> Jumping around the text based on the length of the lines and where the
> nearest \r is seems odd now.
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> If I have a long line of wrapped text, pressing down arrow doesn't go
> down one line, it goes down one paragraph, Lunix's vi's confusing
> jumping cursor should tell you that.
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> YMMV of course.
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> But please, and I'm sure no-one will, don't change the cursor keys in Acme.
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> And while you discuss it, don't forget that Home and End are also
> different in plan9 in that they refer to the document not the current line.
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