Re: lynx-dev [PATCH 2.8.4dev.16] END key fixed

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In a recent note, Matt Ackeret said:

> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:15:39 -0800 (PST)
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Henry Nelson wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:21:11 +0900 (JST)
> >From: Henry Nelson <address@hidden>
> >Reply-To: address@hidden
> >To: address@hidden
> >Subject: Re: lynx-dev [PATCH 2.8.4dev.16] END key fixed
> >
> >>   b) Makes END key always show a full last page of the document.  In
> >>      other words, even if the last line is already shown, it is moved to
> >>      become the last line of the screen: so that as much as possible
> >>      of the document is on the screen.
> >
> >Some of these patches are getting to be personal preferences.  As such,
> >their integration into the general code base needs to be considered
> >carefully, weighting the benefit the "feature" as opposed to the trouble
> >and added code involved in ifdefing and/or configuring.  Especially, the
> >behavior in "b)" is not intuitive to me at all, nor does it correspond with
> >the behavior of any of the editors or viewers I use on a daily basis.
> 
> It doesn't?
> 
> Do you use ANY GUI tools?
> 
> or even in vi, if you type 'G', you go to the end of the document, 
> but it doesn't scroll the bottom way up to the top of the screen..
> 
Ah, but neither does it, if the bottom is in the middle of the
screen, scroll the bottom way down to the bottom of the screen.  The
behavior is rarer than you believe, although more common than Henry
believes.

> I hope this kind of thing can be turned on for space-paging as well..
> (I don't have, nor want, any steenkin' home/end keys on my keyboard.)
> 
Get the Democrats to come and remove Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E, which Lynx
uses as home/end.

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