From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:13:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make j/k move down/up in gitk (like vi)
Message-ID: <7vejm3dp6r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070428030215.GZ26786@jukie.net>

Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> writes:

> Currently gitk has i/k bound to move up and down in the commit list.  I
> would like to make that more consistent with vi's j/k.

I kind of second this.  Any program that implements keyboard
navigation and binds directions differently from vi greatly
irritates me.

But it may be just me, who never used wordstar.

> If this is not acceptable, I will investigate a git-config option for vi
> compatibility mode.

I think a sensible way to go would be to allow gitk to read a
custom tcl script from $HOME/.gitk, and make sure when the file
is written back, the custom bindings are stored there as well.