Subject: Re: gitk: 'j' and 'k' keyboard shortcuts backward

From: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:11:56 -0700

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:49:50AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> How about this patch?
> 
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> Subject: gitk: Make vi-style keybindings more vi-like
> 
> When commit 6e2dda35 (Add new keybindings, 2005-09-22) added vi-style
> keybindings to gitk (an excellent idea!), instead of adopting the
> usual "hjkl = left, down, up, right" bindings used by less, vi, rogue,
> and many other programs, it used "ijkl = up, left, down, right" to
> mimic the inverted-T formation of the arrow keys on a qwerty keyboard,
> in the style of Lode runner.  So using 'j' and 'k' to scroll through
> commits produces utterly confusing results to the vi user, as 'k'
> moves down and 'j' moves to the previous commit.
> 
> Luckily most non-vi-users are probably using an alternate set of keys
> (cursor keys or z/x + n/p) anyway.  Switch to the expected vi/nethack
> convention.
> 
> Requested-by: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>

This looks perfect to me.

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>

Thanks!

- Josh Triplett