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On 11/21/03, Ben Kennedy wrote:
>On 21 11 2003 at 2:40 am -0500, tass wrote:
>
>>Those keys are put there so that one can, while manipulating a page of
text,
>>maneuver about the page and the current line of text exactly as the keys
>>are labeled.
>>"Home" should take you to the very beginning of the current line of text,
>>whereas
>>the "End" key will take you properly to the last typed position of that
>>same line.
>>"Page Up" should immediately take your cursor to the very first position
>>on the very
>>first line of the entire page of text, and, yup, you guessed it, "Page
>>Down" takes you
>>to the last typed position of the very last line of the current page.
>
>Conventions are a bit different in the Mac world.
Understood, expected, and accepted. I didn't move here to try to turn it
into what I left. But there have been good ideas brought to light all over
the world. And I couldn't care less about which,who,what came up with
the better answer. Just so long as someone did, and I can take advantage
of it. :-)
>For the past 20 years
>or so, it has been standard to find cmd-leftarrow to go to the left
>margin, cmd-rightarrow to go to the right margin, cmd-uparrow to go to
>the top of file, cmd-downarrow to go to the bottom. (Really quite more
>intuitive if you ask me)
huh? More intuitive to have to make multiple key moves than to simply use
the provided keys that are marked to do just those things???? Not sure I
see any logic there.
And it's not the "margins" that "home" and "end" are designed to take you
to. That's useless. It's the beginning or the end of the particular line of
TEXT as it has been already typed. This is completely useful. To get to
the last place I typed, or the beginning of the line I use all the time.
Margins are just limits.
>As for page up and page down, they seem to scroll the visible region by
>one screenful (page) of text. Not only does it work for me (there is
>nothing random about it), but it is extremely useful, and just the
>behaviour I expect and need.
Understood. But until it's explained as such, it does appear random to one
who is used to them taking you to the top and bottom of the ACTUAL page
of text, not the assumed page.
Yeah, some of this is going to take getting used to.
ht
