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Re: Page up/down keys
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Page up/down keys |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:33:51 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:55AM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As we talked (Robert and me) in another thread, I'm thinking to add
> support for Page Up/Down keys in Grub menu (if here, in the mailing
> list, think that it's fine).
>
> My suggestion for the exact behaviour is mainly the same that vim is
> using. If you want to test how it would look in a menu, get a xterm,
> resize to 6 rows (and many columns as you want) and execute:
>
> seq 100 | vim -
Some idea to avoid the bikesheding: how about following the behaviour that
is simpler/cleaner to implement and/or results in less code size? :-)
> I would add only one thing: pressing "many times" PageUp would move the
> active line to the first position (vim is not doing it). So, when the
> active line is on the first page and the user press PgUp one more time
> it would move te cursor to the top.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. I wonder why vim (neither emacs) don't do
this by default.
--
Robert Millan
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- Page up/down keys, Carles Pina i Estany, 2008/08/20
- Re: Page up/down keys,
Robert Millan <=