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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.122613.734@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 12:26:13 GMT
- References: <sherman.721291094@foster> <BxGu2H.A62@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov10.055311.14872@wixer.cactus.org> <BxKM0t.1xH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >>dumb question is this? Are you blaming your keyboard manufacturer's
- >>ills on Unix, or are you incoherently expecting that Unix assign some
- >>sort of meaning to every key assignable?
-
- >No it's not a dumb question. There is no standard for help in the Unix
- >world. The f keys are seldom used in unix programs. Most terminals
- >have f keys. It would seem this would be a good time to start convincing
- >people to use F1 for help, n'est ce pas?
-
- Right! And since curses supports the F-keys (and many others too) it means
- that at least every curses based program could support it. If your keyboard
- doesn't have a F1 key, too bad, then you'll have to do your tasks without
- helptext.
-
- >With 95% of all keyboards having little bumps on the "home" key it makes
- >absolutely NO SENSE to use keys one character right of the home keys
- >as cursor keys. None whatsoever. Espeicially when h could be a help
- >key, instead of wasted on the right arrow, when J should be the right
- >arrow.
-
- Uhm, shouldn't that be left arrow? :-) But you're right, it's just that
- adm3a's had cursor arrows on their HJKL keys. Why they didn't take the JKL;
- keys? I don't know...
-
- >Why is typing text into a text editor "a mistake." VI should default
- >to typing mode. It would 100% or more user friendly, as well as compatible
- >with the other 1000 programs out there that claim to be editors.
-
- Well, I don't think it's a good idea to change vi NOW, as too many people
- are familiar with it.
-