On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > There's a *lot* of history of using the space bar to "do the next thing" > in Unix console programs (more/less, most news readers and existing mail > readers). And there's no reason *not* to use them -- what else would you > bind to the space key? You're right: the defaults should cater to the > new user, but there's no reason to deliberatly aggravate the experienced > user.
BTW dselect keybinding for exiting the help screen shouldn't be <space>. Hopefully Wichert will include my patch for that (and the rest of the help stuff) in woody (he said he would). -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name [no, there was no purpose to this post other than to say that exiting help system with <space> sucks ;>]