vi-style scrolling in firefox

[Richard England]

Tim wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 14:45 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
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>>For those of us with hands glued to the standard typing position,
>>the inability of firefox to scroll vi-style is a constant irritation.
>>The necessity to lift the hand over to the unnatural arrow keys,
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>My arrow keys seem quite natural.  Up arrow points up and moves up; the
>down arrow's below it and moves down; left arrow is left of it, and
>points left; there's a right arrow on the right that goes right, etc.
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>>Why can't firefox obey the standard convention? 
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>But *which* standard???
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>> - move down with the right index finger, up with the middle finger,
>>left by reaching left, and right with the third finger?  Scroll up a
>>full page by reaching up to u, and down with the thumb.
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>Oh right, one with out any coherent correlation between the keycaps and
>the functionality.
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>Much as it grieves me to say it, there's a lot of logic in some of the
>other OSs key combinations:  A qualifier and O to open files, a
>qualifier and S to save a file, arrow keys, etc.  Linux, on the other
>hand, uses a plethora of illogical and different key combinations.
>Heck, I can't even cut and paste between some things, at all, even when
>I've figured out what peculiar key combinations individual applications
>use.
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>I can see why Firefox, by default, uses logical key combinations, and
>doesn't use unnatural vi-specific keybindings.
> ;-|
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I can agree with the argument that the common user may not understand 
the Emacs or Vi "standard" key bindings for cursor movement, but over 
the years they HAVE become a standard.  I also agree that the plethora 
for key mappings from Linux applications are detrimental to common user 
"comfort" with Linux.

Having said that, however, for someone used to the Vi/Emacs "standards"  
it would be a great convenience not to have to shift to the auxiliary 
keypad to move about in the browser.

Thanks, David, for showing me how I can install the Vi key bindings

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