>>For the past 20 years >>or so, it has been standard to find cmd-leftarrow to go to the left >>margin, cmd-rightarrow to go to the right margin, cmd-uparrow to go to >>the top of file, cmd-downarrow to go to the bottom. (Really quite more >>intuitive if you ask me) > >huh? More intuitive to have to make multiple key moves than to simply use >the provided keys that are marked to do just those things???? Not sure I >see any logic there. >And it's not the "margins" that "home" and "end" are designed to take you >to. That's useless. It's the beginning or the end of the particular line of >TEXT as it has been already typed. This is completely useful. To get to >the last place I typed, or the beginning of the line I use all the time. >Margins are just limits.
Considering that pressing the arrow keys _un_modified when the cursor is in a message moves the cursor left/right/up/down, a command-arrow is perfectly logical to do that and more so: hence to either margin or the top and bottom of the file. As for what the keys are supposed to be for.... IIRC, how about Print Screen or SysRq? Aren't there more keys like this orphaned in technology's advance that have simply acquired new and perhaps somewhat arbitrary functions? Chris --
