From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24224: Enable 'h, j, k, l' key navigation where ever possible Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 05:38:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83wpjjfel5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32757"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Mohammed Sadik , 24224-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 14:39:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kNxri-0008Qa-HV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 01 Oct 2020 05:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 05:38:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:45:05 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:189500 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> From: Mohammed Sadik >>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:22:38 +0530 >>> >>> There are several buffers where alphabet keys have no effect. >>> In such buffers, it would be nice to enable the keys h, j, k, and l, for >>> navigation, and even further q for quit (or close the buffer), o for >>> other window, etc. This might also help resolve the pinky problem a little. >>> >>> The buffers that can include those key for navigation can be >>> help-mode, apropos-mode, woman, package-menu-mode (package listings), >>> compilation-mode, customize (Custom-mode), info-mode, and so on. >> >> Some of these keys are already bound in some of these modes. For >> example, h and l have bindings in help-mode. >> >> So I guess this could be some optional minor mode, off by default. > > (That was 4 years ago.) > > The request is to bind 'h', 'j', 'k' and 'l' where possible, presumably > to be more like vim. I think this use case is mostly covered by viper > and/or the third-party evil. > > Eli pointed out that this would conflict with current key bindings, and > I can only add that it would not be worth usurping these key bindings > everywhere when we already have 'f', 'b', 'n' and 'p'. > > Eli also suggested that this could be an optional minor mode. I don't > see why we couldn't include such a package in GNU ELPA, but I don't > think it makes sense to keep a request like this open in our bug tracker > indefinitely if no one is actively working on it. > > Any other opinions? And is anyone working on this? No further comments within almost 6 weeks, so I'll assume that there are no objections to the above. I'm therefore closing this bug now.