Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:15:45 +0200 | From | Heimo Stranner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu |
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On 2013-07-09 19:07, Steven Noonan wrote: > 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. I haven't thought about that. Obviously you are right, "Kernel hacking" and "Kernel compression mode" just being two examples that use k which I found in a very quick search.
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