On 2013-02-09 Saturday at 02:03 +0100 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2013 Roland Eggner wrote:
> > Add vi-style navigation keys, based on initial work by Dmitry Voytik.
> 
> As much I am a unconditional vim user, I doubt this is a sane idea to
> include this, as it conflicts with the established UI that people expect,
> especially since <h> is remapped and people already rely on <h> to provide
> help, not do any other weird thing (like exiting the current submenu).

Having the most frequently used keys in the middle of the keyboard is 
a professional computer usage pattern, not an anachronistic one.

Regarding the <h>/<H> conflict:  My vision is to eliminate the need for help 
keybindings <h> <?> at all by displaying the related help text beside the menu 
permanently, similar to some graphical backends.  For terminals with 
COLUMNS>=160 this should be rather easy to implement.  nouveaufb gives me by 
default terminal with 274 columns, “retina” displays are entering the market 
… the frequency of COLUMNS>=160 terminals probably will continue to grow.  While 
staying compatible with COLUMNS=80, it seems reasonable to use the capabilities 
of wider terminals, or what would you say?

Cannot promise when I will find the time to prepare a patch.

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Regards
Roland Eggner