From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:01:26 +0100 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c56e26ae-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >=A0Maybe 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. =A0It's primary usefulness is in editors. =A0But in a proportional > font, what exactly does moving up a line mean? =A0Move to the > position that is the same number of characters from the beginning > of the line? =A0Move to the same geometric position? =A0What if that > position is in the middle of a character? =A0No 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 someho= w. 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