Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:27:53 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu |
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On 07/08/2013 06:08:41 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:00:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 07/05/2013 06:32:59 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > > >Like in Vim. > > > > > >Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> > > >Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> > > >--- > > > Unsure why nobody has done this yet. > > > > While you're at it, why don't you add the ws up and down bindings > > from World of Warcraft? > > > > The reason nobody has done this yet is that vi predates the > > invention of cursor keys. They keyboards Bill Joy was using in the ... > > And now you know _why_ Linux is over 20 years old and has never > > needed this. > > Well, one advantage of these key bindings is, that you don't have to > move your hands away from the base line. And as vim user I find myself > using vim key sequences in all tools. I cannot even count how many > processes I accidentally killed because I tried to scroll using 'k' in > htop where it does 'kill'.
A ringing endorsement.
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