Re: PgUp/PgDown - why Shift???

["Len Philpot" <len philpot org>]

> The idea is that if you allow the gnome-terminal to use the PgUp/PgDn keys
> to scroll, then they will not be available to other terminal-based 
> applications such as emacs or pico. You can try it for yourself:

Of course, another approach could be to have the terminal merely 
host the application's display, whether vi, emacs, bash or 
whatever and not interfere with anything: Let _each_ app handle 
all the keyboard IO by itself, the way the app sees fit. That 
way, any functionality built into each app would be free to 
function. Basically, the terminal would cease to exist when an 
app was running (whcih would be all the time; the shell if 
nothing else).

Unfortunately, I've not come across any terminal emulators that 
do that AFAICT.


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