On 2013-02-09 Saturday at 02:03 +0100 Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On Friday 01 February 2013 Roland Eggner wrote: > > Add vi-style navigation keys, based on initial work by Dmitry Voytik. > > As much I am a unconditional vim user, I doubt this is a sane idea to > include this, as it conflicts with the established UI that people expect, > especially since <h> is remapped and people already rely on <h> to provide > help, not do any other weird thing (like exiting the current submenu).
Having the most frequently used keys in the middle of the keyboard is a professional computer usage pattern, not an anachronistic one. Regarding the <h>/<H> conflict: My vision is to eliminate the need for help keybindings <h> <?> at all by displaying the related help text beside the menu permanently, similar to some graphical backends. For terminals with COLUMNS>=160 this should be rather easy to implement. nouveaufb gives me by default terminal with 274 columns, “retina” displays are entering the market … the frequency of COLUMNS>=160 terminals probably will continue to grow. While staying compatible with COLUMNS=80, it seems reasonable to use the capabilities of wider terminals, or what would you say? Cannot promise when I will find the time to prepare a patch. -- Regards Roland Eggner
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