vi-style scrolling in firefox

[Bill Perkins]

Richard England wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 14:45 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> 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,
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 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
> 

Linux is about freedom- in this case, the freedom to customize. Is it as 
easy (or as well documented) under the various flavors of Windows?

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