Bug#358749: w3m: Use keys < and > to switch tabs instead of awkward { and } (elinks compatible)

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tags 358749 + wontfix
thanks

> > You can change your keymap by putting ~/.w3m/keymap as follows:

> Thanks, but I was addressing a more generic usability enhancement.

I am afraid that it is late in the day to change default keymap,
so I tag wontfix.
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Bug#358749: w3m: Use keys < and > to switch tabs instead of awkward { and } (elinks compatible)

[Jari Aalto]

| At Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:00:28 +0200,
| Jari Aalto wrote:
| 
| > The keyboard keys "{" and "}" are in difficult places in various
| > keyboards (need AltGr + top row access in Europe). It seems that
| > elinks has bound changing tabs to actions
| > 
| >  < Previous tab
| >  > Next tab
| > 
| > Which seems more logical. Switcing the tabs is far more frequent than the
| > currently bound keys:
| > 
| >  < Shift screen left
| >  > Shift screen right
| > 
| > which, these good keys, are mostly left unused.
| > 
| > Please consider chnaging the tab movement to
| > 
| > <
| > >
| > 
| > And moving the shift movement to:
| > 
| > {
| > }
| > 
| > This would help accessibility of the program and make it also compatible
| > with elinks.
| 
| You can change your keymap by putting ~/.w3m/keymap as follows:
| 
| % echo '
| keymap NEXT_TAB
| keymap {SHIFT_LEFT
| keymap }SHIFT_RIGHT
| ' > ~/.w3m/keymap

Thanks, but I was addressing a more generic usability enhancement.


1) The { } keys are in very uncomfortable place in Europe keyboards
2) The < > keys are currently almost unused in w3m

=> Therefore it would be 

1) Better to move to use <> for tab, which are more accessible
2) it would also be elinks(1) combpatible and user would have
   same unterface.

Jari



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Bug#358749: w3m: Use keys < and > to switch tabs instead of awkward { and } (elinks compatible)

[Fumitoshi UKAI]

At Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:00:28 +0200,
Jari Aalto wrote:

> The keyboard keys "{" and "}" are in difficult places in various
> keyboards (need AltGr + top row access in Europe). It seems that
> elinks has bound changing tabs to actions
> 
>  < Previous tab
>  > Next tab
> 
> Which seems more logical. Switcing the tabs is far more frequent than the
> currently bound keys:
> 
>  < Shift screen left
>  > Shift screen right
> 
> which, these good keys, are mostly left unused.
> 
> Please consider chnaging the tab movement to
> 
> <
> >
> 
> And moving the shift movement to:
> 
> {
> }
> 
> This would help accessibility of the program and make it also compatible
> with elinks.

You can change your keymap by putting ~/.w3m/keymap as follows:

% echo '
keymap NEXT_TAB
keymap {SHIFT_LEFT
keymap }SHIFT_RIGHT
' > ~/.w3m/keymap

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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Bug#358749: w3m: Use keys < and > to switch tabs instead of awkward { and } (elinks compatible)

[Jari Aalto]

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-4
Severity: wishlist

The keyboard keys "{" and "}" are in difficult places in various
keyboards (need AltGr + top row access in Europe). It seems that
elinks has bound changing tabs to actions

 < Previous tab
 > Next tab

Which seems more logical. Switcing the tabs is far more frequent than the
currently bound keys:

 < Shift screen left
 > Shift screen right

which, these good keys, are mostly left unused.

Please consider chnaging the tab movement to

<
>

And moving the shift movement to:

{
}

This would help accessibility of the program and make it also compatible
with elinks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
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ii  libncurses5   5.5-1  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.7   0.9.7g-5   SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime

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