> On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Developers, > > guess. Since we seem to be picking on dselect's user interface again, > > I wish it had more "emacs-like" key bindings, but it's a marvelous > > tool as it is, IMHO. > > PLEASE, please, please do not confront people with 'emacs-like' > keybindings. This would scare away newbies without impressing > experienced people too much. The more experienced people > quite often use plain dpkg and are happy with these cli-tools.
I don't use emacs, but to me dselect seems to be already too emacs-oriented. For example, searching for a package is done with /, but how do you repeat the search? I haven't studied the help in much detail, but for me the answer is "I don't know" presently. Pressing / and entering the same search just takes you back to the first result again. This is counter-intuitive for users of vi, less etc. Lynx uses "n" to repeat a search but dselect doesn't use that either. We should certainly not force a particular editor down anyone's throat, especially emacs :-) hamish (vi fan) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
