Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu

[Heimo Stranner <heimo@stranner.org>]

On 2013-07-09 19:07, Steven Noonan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Heimo Stranner <heimo@stranner.org> 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.