>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Nordell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Mike> In all Windows applications, PageUp/Down moves the cursor. In
Mike> AbiWord this is apparently not so right now.

Mike> Page Up/Down only displays another area of the document (where
Mike> the cursor _should_ have been), but a simple CursorUp after
Mike> moving quite a few pages in a document took me back to where AW
Mike> believed my cursor should be. Pissed off? Me? :-) Yes.

Mike> Please tell me this is no design decision, just an oversight.

Mike> If this is a Macintosh induced design decision, I think, nay I
Mike> know, we will need to put cursor movement in a platform or
Mike> preference layer.

This is standard word processor brain damage, AFAIK. I hate is as
well. But we hate it because we're used to editors which behave
differently.

I believe we have a bug about making the behavior configurable.

FWIW I think ctrl-pageup/down DTRT.

Jesper

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