Bob Proulx wrote: > Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for > top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.) > [...] > Therefore I think the answer is that traditional unix behavior has > been replaced with contemporary ms behavior many places. Ron Johnson wrote me out of band and said: > <Home> for "column 1" and <End> for "last column" has been around since > at least 1981, and longer than that, probably, since, if memory serves > me, the IBM 3270 terminals also had/have such keys. > > In fact, even in my pre-MS-DOS days, in CP/M parlance, "home" was column > 1, not top-of-page. So perhaps I was too harsh here. Perhaps it was CP/M that gets the win instead! ;-) Bob
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