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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Open Source Documentation
Date: 23 Feb 2009 16:40:09
Message: <49a317b8@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Exactly.  Blender feels to me closer to vi than anything else.  You just
> press regular keys and contextual commands are issued. 

Many KDE apps are like that. I just pressed R (not Ctrl-R) to reply to your
post in KNode. U marks unread, D marks read. Left and right change the
currently selected message, which is strange, since in any other list you'd
expect up and down to do that.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Open Source Documentation
Date: 23 Feb 2009 19:40:00
Message: <web.49a340bec3fb424d76e7e4a20@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Exactly.  Blender feels to me closer to vi than anything else.  You just
> > press regular keys and contextual commands are issued.
>
> Many KDE apps are like that. I just pressed R (not Ctrl-R) to reply to your
> post in KNode. U marks unread, D marks read. Left and right change the
> currently selected message, which is strange, since in any other list you'd
> expect up and down to do that.

Face it:  newsreaders too are very unusual pieces of software.  And usenet is
about as old as vi anyway. ;)


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Open Source Documentation
Date: 23 Feb 2009 22:11:17
Message: <49a36555@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Face it:  newsreaders too are very unusual pieces of software.  And usenet
> is about as old as vi anyway. ;)

KMail has about the same key bindings.


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