Quoting (was Re: Why?)

[Fairlight]

Only Bill Vermillion would say something like:
> 
> Nothing wrong with down arrow - but page down is usually faster.

Well yeah, if you have to move whole screens.  If you only have to move 5
lines, it doesn't do you much good when intertwining reply points.  That's
my point.

> 
> And I don't use the 'j' in vi for down or 'k' for up when I have to
> go more than a few lines - full paging with Control-F or Control-B
> is much faster, even when you are on a fast DSL, when you are doing
> things remotely.


So do I, but see above.  I was referring to something else entirely.  

> I fell into the habit of paging from the days of using terminals
> watching people just hold down the arrow key and watching the
> terminal repaint line by line, when a page was must faster.

And if you do curses wrong, it still can be.  There's a way to make it
reverse scroll that's actually fast.  Then there's a method where you
remove the top line, repaint the whole thing, and append a bottom line.
And you do the reverse when scrolling the opposite way.  It works, but it's
slow.  Unfortunately, before ncurses, some platforms used to do the fast
method incorrectly, so my old, old chat client is coded the slower way.  It
works, but it's not optimal.  It's also not worth rewriting.  :)

> And to be sure I wasn't losing my mind, I just went in remotely
> via DSL [I'm at 1.5Mb] and it's still faster with control-F than it
> is with 'j'.
> 
> Try it - you'll like it :-)

I -use- it.  But that won't put your cursor midway through a paragraph or
between two of them to reply to a point.  That was the specific thing I
was taking about when I said what I did.  At some point you have to stop
paging and use precision.  Actually, I even know about (H)igh, (M)iddle,
and (L)ow, but I never use them for some reason.

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