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I'm a developer and I never use the ins/home/pgup/del/end/pgdn keys. I use the equivalent readline and Emacs keybindings for those.

I develop on Debian running on a MacBook Pro. Sometimes the screen size bothers me, but the laptop being bigger would probably inconvenience me more.

I might be an unusual case, but perhaps what you imagine the market for developers to be isn't the actual market for developers.



I use Home and End like crazy, which is one reason I haven't switched to OS/X as my main machine.


Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work in most input controls, and definitely work in the terminal.


ins/home/pgup/del/end/pgdn keys

How do you scroll up in a terminal window?


avar: "...Emacs"

moe: "...a terminal window"

Redundancy alert!


No, I meant in bash. I guess as a developer he spends some time there (that might be a false assumption, of course).

I've been using Shift+PGUP for ages and absolutely despise Laptops where it's buried under FN+Cursor - which usually requires both hands to press.

Perhaps there's an alternative key combination that I don't know about - which is part of why I ask.


In Terminal.app I just wave my fingers over the track pad to scroll. However 99.9% of the time I'm in a screen window which maintains its own buffer. Fn + Up/Down is Page Up/Down in most applications I've used.


All of my bash shells are run in GNU screen. So scrolling up is C-a [ to enter copy-mode. Then C-u to scroll up and C-d to scroll down.


I can't speak for others, but I usually run a M-x shell process in Emacs.




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