Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:09:16PM -0700, 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.) > > But with some recent update I find that those keys take me to > > beginning of line and end of line, not the top of file and bottom of > > file. What a nasty change! Why break all of us old farts? > > What application are you talking about here? I thought the general rule was home/end were line-based on line-based applications and full-document based on full-document apps. So they are line-based on stuff like text editors (vim, emacs, bash), and document-based on viewers like mozilla, less, w3m, and mutt. Of course this is applied to various contexts inside programs too; so if you are at a line prompt in mutt, less or w3m, or in the URL entry field in mozilla, home and end have line-based behavior again. Dragging DOS into it might be a mistake, I vaguely remember it being rather more inconsistent than this. -- see shy jo
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