-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Also sprach Bob Proulx (Sun 09 Mar 02003 at 01:09:16PM -0700): > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > For some insane reason, I've been trying various combinations of Ctrl- > > > and Alt- and Home and End ;> > > > > Well, I think I agree with you. I'd have never thought to try only > > <Home> & <End>. "Everywhere else", the standard keystrokes are > > <ctrl>-<home> & <ctrl>-<end>. > > Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for > top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.) > But with some recent update I find that those keys take me to > beginning of line and end of line, not the top of file and bottom of > file. What a nasty change! Why break all of us old farts? > > Doing more research revealed that MS-Word used [home] for beginning of > line and [end] for end of line. Who would have thunk it? Apparently > someone changed the behavior to be more similar to MS-Word behavior. > Chalk up another win for the ms folks. The traditional unix bahavior > has always been the other way around. > > Therefore I think the answer is that traditional unix behavior has > been replaced with contemporary ms behavior many places. Mozilla has > been around for a long time and must be using the "normal unix" > behavior for those keys and not the "normal ms" behavior.
Odd thing to me is, mozilla changes its behaviour by platform. Both netscrape and mozilla -- under windoze -- require C-home and C-end to goto page extremes. Konqueror uses A-home and A-end; and, per this thread, I find that it also allows plain home and end. So, simpleton that I often am, I over complicated the whole deal and my brain insisted that it had to be a combination key pair, instead of the simple single keys . . . - -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 - - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+a7XjLUOEaCtUQpwRAlKLAJ4pGmrHJ8jiH10Nq5sDNRvXofqwvwCfVLn5 Ga2GiIgMN49htS1tRQAeaR8= =ZmWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
