From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:48:34 -0500 From: "Joey Makar" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch In-Reply-To: <4559D5DB.40407@proweb.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10611140525k68c31de1s525c816957352836@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10611140544i5d4d2928nea0d64cd955a3b38@mail.gmail.com> <20061114141618.GD11151@shodan.homeunix.net> <4559D5DB.40407@proweb.co.uk> Topicbox-Message-UUID: def12814-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: > Perhaps you long for a line printer and ^j and ^k or have played too > much nethack :) > > Using up arrow and down arrow to scroll is IMHO (eventually) a better plan. > > Jumping around the text based on the length of the lines and where the > nearest \r is seems odd now. > > 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. > > YMMV of course. > > But please, and I'm sure no-one will, don't change the cursor keys in Acme. > > 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. > > matt > > > > > >