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From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightspeedC Arrow Key Tricks
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 08:02:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 08:02:10 1987
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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The given arrow commands are a good start.  The first think I would ask for
is to move them to the main keyboard keys (where my fingers are) by, say,
requiring the control or option-control combination to invoke them.  To avoid
conflict with menu commands, I could even live with control-shift for each
command with conjunction to normal keys (I can get used to almost anything
as long as my fingers don't have to leave from the home keys by much).  I'm
sure this would not be hard to add in to the current functionality.

The next step would be to add support for word movements.  All I need is
to move forward or backwords by words so that moving goes a little faster.

If it is possible, the final enhancement would be support for scrolling
the window from a key command.  This is more complicated, so I don't expect
it to be easily added.

VI is nice, but editing from the main keys, in any way, would be nice.

Oh yea, the final request, which somehow gets forgotten in some editors,
is to support key repeat on these commands.

Thanks for listening THINK, we all appreciate the support.