On 2013-02-09 Saturday at 12:36 +0100 Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Rolland, All, > > On Saturday 09 February 2013 Roland Eggner wrote: > > 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? > > How do you navigate up/down in the help text (when the terminal is not > high enought to display the entire help) if it is displayed at the same > time the menu entries are, yet without breaking the UI behavior people > expect? Good question. My vision is a UI similar to mc with directory listing in one panel, file content in the other panel, “quick view” and “lynx-like navigation” switched on. Help keybindings <h> <?> will become superfluous, and keybindings <Tab> <Ctrl-i> to switch focus between menu and help “panel” will be added. Implementation will require some ncurses exercise and more time, than I have available in near future. Thus I keep saying “no promise …” -- Regards Roland Eggner
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