The 03.06.06 at 00:34, Anders Johansson wrote:
One set of hotkeys is OK, but they're not really the same all over, are they? And the ones you mention isn't exactly all there are. I like to think I have a pretty good memory, but I sometimes find myself staring at the screen trying to remember the particular key sequence for less, vi, info or even emacs. It can be a pain at times.
Just my point. There are some programs nowdays that do not recognize the cursor keys. For example, I'm using Pine in an xterm. If I want to go to the beginning of the line, I have to press [Ctrl][A], because [home] and [end] beeps at me. If I switch to a text console, [End] works but not [home]. If I want to go left one word, [Ctrl][left] doesn't work on most text programs. Common! This is the 21st century! All keyboards do have cursor keys :-( I don't complain that ^A still work, I complain the cursor keyboard doesn't.
But don't ask me, ask the people you are trying to sell SuSE Personal Edition to.
Exactly! I have a friend that I'm trying to convince to use Linux, and he bought Mandrake, and later SuSE. He want's to buy 8.2 now -- in fact, I'm encouraging him, because I being his "guru", I'll get a free or shared copy ;-) -- He is the windows type, and will not even look at a text configuration program, he wants only point click click... it is the way it is. Don't tell him that it is better a text configuration file - and I do think it is better, but he doesn't eat it. I'm looked at funnily by my group of friends - and even peers - because I'm the one using linux... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson