Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

> Maybe it only
> happens once in 1000 times, but in that 0.1% of the time, my
> finger coming down on the return key accidentally hits the up
> arrow and the timing just so happens that I rerun the previous
> command instead of the one I just typed, sometimes with very
> unpleasant consqeuences.

This is the 1st time I hear about such a misfortune... :)

> As for up-arrow moving up a line, this comes up from time to
> time.  It's primary usefulness is in editors.  But in a proportional
> font, what exactly does moving up a line mean?  Move to the
> position that is the same number of characters from the beginning
> of the line?  Move to the same geometric position?  What if that
> position is in the middle of a character?  No one ever seems to
> float a proposal that hits everyone as having "the ring of truth."
> I have thought there could be some usefulness in this, but I
> haven't thought of a policy that is so beautiful it draws me to
> the source to code it.

All usual editors that use proportional fonts have to cope with this somehow.
E.g. one of the most common in linux, openoffice's writer, seems to be
trying to move the cursor approximately to the same geometric
position.

R