Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!gateway!nav.icst.nbs.GOV!rbj From: rbj@nav.icst.nbs.GOV (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Looking for a Simple Text Editor Message-ID: <8808302043.AA24370@nav.icst.nbs.gov> Date: 30 Aug 88 20:43:27 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: BBN news/mail gateway Lines: 22 From: Charles Brown It looks like you picked the easy ones. Would you care to explain what the four following are supposed to stand for? k previous-line keep moving back? :-{ j next-line jump forward? :-/ l forward-character lunge? or launch? :-) h backward-character harken back? :-] Those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it. It seems that one of the first crt's that ken and dmr came across was an adm-3a. It had arrows above these keys, and the control versions of those keys performed left, down, up, and rite cursor motion. UNIX games like like snake, rogue, hack, and robots use these keys for motion commands. The Televideo uses the same on its arrow keys, except ^v instead of ^j. (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 The opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement Careful with that VAX Eugene!