Re: [PING][PATCH] Add shortcuts for "nexti" and "stepi" commands in Single-Key mode

Ruslan Kabatsayev
2017-08-04T19:11:05Z

On 4 August 2017 at 16:29, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> On 2017-08-04 07:48, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After using these shortcuts for some time I found that they are still
>> not best: one has to hold Shift in order to continuously step in
>> instruction mode. Would it be better to e.g. replace N->m, S->z? I
>> think we can basically use any non-occupied shortcuts here, they just
>> should be convenient, not necessarily be associated with "long"
>> version of the commands.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ruslan
>
>
> Ok, I understand how having to hold shift may not be so practical.
>
> It would be nice if there was a pattern that made it easy to remember/deduce
> the keys for stepi/nexti from the keys for step/next, which are more
> obvious. For example, if we used 'a' for stepi and 'b' for nexti, the
> "instruction" versions of the keys would both be at the left of their
> "non-instruction" counterpart. That's with a QWERTY-centric view though,
> maybe it doesn't make sense with other layouts.
My choice of 'z' and 'm' was something like: 'z' is almost as 's', but
voiced, and 'm' is just next to 'n' both in the alphabet as well as on
QWERTY keyboard. I guess it's not too consistent nor memorizable.
I'll send another version, with a better choice, which I hope does make sense.
>
> Simon