From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
Subject: Re: many keys have preconceived notions that one reads downward
Date: 26 Jan 2003 12:46:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vg0c4ixk.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
> Challenge for Lars for a week: read messages starting at the bottom of
> the buffer and advancing upwards with 'p'. You'll find that many keys
> have preconceived notions that we are supposed to move down, like E.
< Virtually all the commands work that way.
<
< Actually, this would be quite easy to fix, I think. All the
< functions (eventually) call `gnus-summary-next-subject' and
< `gnus-summary-prev-subject' to move to the next/prev article. There
< could be a command to toggle which direction these two functions
< actually moved -- then all the commands would (as if by magic) move
< point in the opposite direction that they normally do.
<
Ok, but remember to be like one of those socket wrenches, where one
can set it for forward, reverse, and stationary -- three settings.
< Would that be useful, though? Hitting `n' and going to the next
< message? `SPC' down to the end of the message and then read the
< previous unread message? Sounds pretty dubious to me.
What bugs me is that when I hit E it is possible for the cursor to
jump 100s of messages forward, as it is looking for the next new message.
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2003-01-23 10:15 ` Kai Großjohann
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