Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752165Ab3GIQgS (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:36:18 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:57616 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751650Ab3GIQgQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:36:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:27:53 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu To: =?iso-8859-1?b?U/ZyZW4=?= Brinkmann Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , LKML , Michal Marek References: <1373023979-20537-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <1373151605.27613.9@driftwood> <478d866c-606e-42de-9779-6ae18d70e7f1@CO1EHSMHS014.ehs.local> In-Reply-To: <478d866c-606e-42de-9779-6ae18d70e7f1@CO1EHSMHS014.ehs.local> (from soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com on Mon Jul 8 18:08:41 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1373387273.27613.30@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1270 Lines: 32 On 07/08/2013 06:08:41 PM, S?ren Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:00:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 07/05/2013 06:32:59 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > > >Like in Vim. > > > > > >Cc: Michal Marek > > >Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra > > >--- > > > Unsure why nobody has done this yet. > > > > While you're at it, why don't you add the ws up and down bindings > > from World of Warcraft? > > > > The reason nobody has done this yet is that vi predates the > > invention of cursor keys. They keyboards Bill Joy was using in the ... > > And now you know _why_ Linux is over 20 years old and has never > > needed this. > > 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'. A ringing endorsement. Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/