On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:30:55AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 04:46:04AM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote:
> > Using the Space and the Backspace keys for up and down movement is absurd,
> > it's even stupid. Backspace is back-space. Those keybindings where thought
> > for keyboards without arrows, and those keyboards no longer exists...
> Or for terminals without valid cursor-key translations, and those
> terminals and connections DO exist. Or for people who don't want to
> have their hands leave the home position, and those people DO exist.
It also gets used in things like newsreaders (well, Gnus at least) where
the cursor keys move something other than the text of the message being
viewed.
> I almost exclusively use the spacebar to page down, and I sometimes
> use backspace to page backwards. Different != stupid, and I'd point
> out that your attitude is probably offending people by now.
Indeed. Besides, putting too many changes into the default
configuration is only going to irritate people - a package should
probably behave much as a user familiar with the program from elsewhere
would expect. Old users get confused, and new users get confusing help
from old users.
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