Feature request: Vim+Emacs(Mac) keyword shortcuts for selection

[zitudu]

I was wondering if it's possible to move cursor up/down-ward just like in vim or terminal?

That is:

j or Ctrl-N -> ↓
k or Ctrl-P -> ↑
h or Ctrl-B -> ←
l or Ctrl-F -> →

[andreatulimiero]

I believe giving users the chance to specify a different key combination to scroll up and down would be a nice addition and should be fairly easy to implement.
However, for some notorious key combinations (e.g., Ctrl-J or Ctrl-N) a change is required to python-readchar too -- If I am not mistaken they are not here.

Update:
I've added an issue and a PR for this.
Also, IMHO, I believe it would be better to change the issue, and feature request, to something like "Custom key codes for scrolling".

[thebashpotato]

Looks like someone was working on this, but they didn't follow through. I have the code that provides this functionality (for vim atleast). I may implement Emacs

[Cube707]

if you have the code ready, feel free to open a PR and I will review it.

But reading #102 (comment) I agree that it would probably be best to make this configurable (with the current behavior as defautl), instead of adding a bounch to the default behavior, possibly creating overlaps in functionalaty (for example j is usefull for yes if your aplication is in german, etc...)

[Cube707]

also closing this because of what was discussed here #560 (comment)