From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:34:51 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch In-Reply-To: <13426df10611140525k68c31de1s525c816957352836@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: de5f43ea-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue Nov 14 08:25:37 EST 2006, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: > I guess we can worry about internal consistency in plan 9, but fact > is, in the rest of the known universe, uparrow goes up a line, > downarrow goes down, they move the cursor. who said we have to be like the rest of the world. i thought the point of plan 9 was to be different. the rest of the world uses sockets and nfs, too. ;-) > But the worst thing we can do is fall into the 'it's always worked > this way' mantra. At that point, you might as well be a Fortran > programmer. this is a goofy argument. i haven't seen "we've always done it this way" trotted out as an argument. perhaps i missed it. plus, are you really saying that if you don't want cursor keys, your just an old fortran programmer in plan 9 disguise? =E2=98=BA - erik