Re: binding b-key to pageback behavior

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

VanL wrote:

> Is there a general configuration to bind
> b-key to pageback?

Well, how would that work? In your code, it
isn't even the same function, it is
`scroll-down-command', then its
`View-scroll-page-backward'... And even if it
did, after evaluating it one wouldn't be able
to write this very message!

What you can do, is something like:

(defun set-vertical-keys (map)
  "Set MAP keys for moving point vertically."
  (define-key map "i" #'previous-line)
  (define-key map "k" #'next-line) ) ; [1]

and then, for example for the
gnus-summary-mode, do

(require 'gnus-sum)
(set-vertical-keys gnus-summary-mode-map)

Also, I'd recommend not doing this in hooks,
unless you have to.


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/scroll.el

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