Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:07:44 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu | From | Steven Noonan <> |
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Heimo Stranner <heimo@stranner.org> wrote: > >> 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'. >> >> In a nutshell: I'm all for vim key bindings everywhere! >> > I can't agree more! > > Because vim key bindings are rather common I can't see a problem if this > patch is applied.
The biggest problem I see is the conflict between j/k and the letter shortcuts used to jump to specific menu items (the letter highlighted in blue on each item). But I haven't ever used that functionality in practice, so who knows.
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