A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Prasad, Ramit]

Chris Angelico wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
> > Though technology has moved along swiftly, keeping your code
> > accessible to the guy using a crummy old console xterm might
> > still be worthwhile, and it makes printouts easy to create.
> 
> And keeping your interface accessible to someone who can't use the
> Home and End keys allows it to be used by someone who's using PuTTY on
> Windows to SSH to a gateway and then SSH from there to a firewalled
> computer that's running your application. And yes, I do exactly that,
> and yes, for some reason Home/End don't always work. One day I'll
> probably figure out what the issue is, but for now, I'm just glad
> there are baseline text editors that don't need such keys...
> 
> Technology moves on, but not everywhere.
> 
> ChrisA
> --

Home and end do not bother me much as I can usually use ctrl+a/ctrl+e
for the same purpose. I do wish I found a better way to page up/down.


Ramit Prasad
 
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