> Well, there are always the <PageUp> and <PageDown> cursor > movement keys, and I know some people would make believe that > Vim is meant to be used without ever hitting any of the keypad > (cursor or numeric) keys, and that anything else is > "un-Vim-like" and to be shunned at all costs; but my take on > that subject is that if the keys are there, and if they are > useful, then by all means use them.
On most modern platforms, using <pgup> and <pgdn> work just fine. The original reasons Vi/Vim's used "core" keyboard commands involved terminals that didn't reliably send/translate such keystrokes. Most of the time this is no longer an issue -- the last time I used a telnet session from a PC that failed to send recognized <pgup>/<pgdn> codes, I was still dialing into BBSes and my local university's Unix system with my 1200 baud modem. So unless you too find yourself whistling along with fun modem-connect chirps as you attach to old Unix servers with bad $TERM settings and don't recognize your pgup/pgdn keycode sequences, you no longer need to eschew their use. (laments the missing ":open" command, like any good crotchety old-timer should ;-) -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
