Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752678Ab3GIRQD (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:16:03 -0400 Received: from stranner.org ([5.135.166.179]:43105 "EHLO stranner.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473Ab3GIRP6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: <51DC4541.8010409@stranner.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:15:45 +0200 From: Heimo Stranner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Noonan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1373023979-20537-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <1373151605.27613.9@driftwood> <478d866c-606e-42de-9779-6ae18d70e7f1@CO1EHSMHS014.ehs.local> <51DC4075.1000708@stranner.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 178.190.210.148 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: heimo@stranner.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stranner.org) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1295 Lines: 26 On 2013-07-09 19:07, Steven Noonan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Heimo Stranner wrote: >>> 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'. >>> >>> In a nutshell: I'm all for vim key bindings everywhere! >>> >> I can't agree more! >> >> Because vim key bindings are rather common I can't see a problem if this >> patch is applied. > The biggest problem I see is the conflict between j/k and the letter > shortcuts used to jump to specific menu items (the letter highlighted > in blue on each item). But I haven't ever used that functionality in > practice, so who knows. I haven't thought about that. Obviously you are right, "Kernel hacking" and "Kernel compression mode" just being two examples that use k which I found in a very quick search. -- 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/