Re: Page up/down keys

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:55AM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> As we talked (Robert and me) in another thread, I'm thinking to add
> support for Page Up/Down keys in Grub menu (if here, in the mailing
> list, think that it's fine).
> 
> My suggestion for the exact behaviour is mainly the same that vim is
> using. If you want to test how it would look in a menu, get a xterm,
> resize to 6 rows (and many columns as you want) and execute:
> 
> seq 100 | vim -

Some idea to avoid the bikesheding: how about following the behaviour that
is simpler/cleaner to implement and/or results in less code size? :-)

> I would add only one thing: pressing "many times" PageUp would move the
> active line to the first position (vim is not doing it). So, when the
> active line is on the first page and the user press PgUp one more time
> it would move te cursor to the top.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me.  I wonder why vim (neither emacs) don't do
this by default.

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