Subject: Re: patch for wscons scrolling
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2002 17:16:13
der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
> >>> the patch supports scrolling up/down on all wscons terminals.  You
> >>> can scroll with Shift (any shift suits) + PgUp/PgDown.
> >> Um...so does that really mean "all wscons terminals that have
> >> PgUp/PgDown keys"?
> > Yes, why shouldn't it be like that ?
> 
> It seems rather silly to throw away one of wscons's major features -
> uniformity across multiple platforms - by making something as useful
> and conceptually portable as scrolling work only one on particular
> platform (a popular one, but still just one).  (I've never seen a
> non-peecee keyboard with PgUp/PgDown keys.)

I've seen lots of non-peecee keyboards with such keys.

Besides, if you want to map the functions to something else, do so. I
don't see why a user of a PC keyboard shouldn't be able to use the
page up page down keys if they want to.

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