On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 10:56:22 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I used to be a big fan of visual > navigation -- pgUp, pgDn, paragraph up, paragraph down, etc., but > beyond 500 lines or so, they quickly become impractical. Having a > 1-key search function (that doesn't involve popups and other such > annoyances) with reversible direction is a far superior approach.
For relatively local distances, I make ultra-heavy use of arrows/home/end/page-up/page-down (and the ctrl- versions of them). Although that does mean laptop/tablet/bluetooth keyboards are utterly useless to me since they only ever include those keys as a half-assed "we don't believe anyone ever uses them" token effort. Shit, even number pads get more respect...but now I'm digressing... For larger distances I make heavy use of PN2's Quick Find which (since I've mapped it to Ctrl-F) works like in Firefox: Ctrl-F, type, maybe a few F3's if the first match isn't right, and done (plus, all matches are automatically highlighted). I just wish that it auto-selected the existing junk in the search box when you hit Ctrl-F like FF does. And then for cross-module navigation there's "Find in Files" which works pretty well as a poor man's "go to usage/definition" (naturally I'd prefer the real thing, but with this the need for it isn't as strong).
