To me you're making the case against not bothering with scroll lock. The Nile way is subjectively the better interface, but what really convinced me of it is you'd get to delete a line from keyboard(6) (and avoid future deliberations about whether to mention Fn-K on ThinkPads).
In other words, DON'T KEEP ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ DON'T KEEP ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ ROLLEN↓ A lot of Plan 9 simplicity comes from just not having a thing in the first place. For example: drag and drop has never meant anything in Plan 9, so a window manager also doesn't need to think about cross-window drag and drop. Or: with our push-to-talk popup menus, you never have to unstick a menu because of a click in a different window. I'd hate to see someone solve touchscreens by making those menus sticky (and putting them on something arbitrary like a two-finger tap). (The rio menu should really be pulled in from a screen edge like going to aeroplane mode on a phone -- but then, does that translate well to other programs?) ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcff5f5374fb94ee2-M4c233a6bc7dda6d1e8e9b6a7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
