Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu

[Steven Noonan]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Heimo Stranner <heimo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Well, one advantage of these key bindings is, that you don't have to
>> move your hands away from the base line. And as vim user I find myself
>> using vim key sequences in all tools. I cannot even count how many
>> processes I accidentally killed because I tried to scroll using 'k' in
>> htop where it does 'kill'.
>>
>> In a nutshell: I'm all for vim key bindings everywhere!
>>
> I can't agree more!
>
> Because vim key bindings are rather common I can't see a problem if this
> patch is applied.

The biggest problem I see is the conflict between j/k and the letter
shortcuts used to jump to specific menu items (the letter highlighted
in blue on each item). But I haven't ever used that functionality in
practice, so who knows.
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