Quoting (was Re: Why?)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jul 02 17:48 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
Fairlight sent this to stdout: 

> When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:35:50PM -0400,
> Bill Vermillion took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> > On Fri, Jul 02 12:10  George Simon said 'Who you talkin' to? You talkin'
> > to George Simon?  I didn't do nuttin'.  I said: 

> > > I don't see a way not to top-post, except to use the down arrow to get to
> > > the end of the message.

> > Doesn't page down work?

> Or CTRL-END?  That's the usual Windows idiom.

> I fail to see the problem with using the down arrow. We use the
> same (or equivalent...'j' in vi, ^N in emacs, etc.) in *nix
> environments. The issue is what, exactly?

Nothing wrong with down arrow - but page down is usually faster.

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.

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 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 :-)

Bill
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