Navigation keys

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Navigation in terminal is painful. It is very hard to, for example, edit a file 
through nano, or 
use any ncurses app. What comes with gestures is not enough because it 
interferes with 
menu very often.

I suggest to add a separate panel in the top of terminal window with navigation 
buttons 
(<,>,^,v), and maybe some control keys (like esc). I think it would not be hard 
to implement, 
and it would make life a lot easier for those who use console a lot. For others 
who do not like 
it, there could be a switch to turn it off.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by povilas....@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2009 at 10:16

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I've configred the pop-up menu with arrow and navigation (home/end/pgup/pgdn) 
keys.  This seems to be 
essentially what you're requesting, but without any need for dev work.  The 
main problem with it is that 
the key sequences aren't documented...

Original comment by khep...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2010 at 3:26

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Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 4:19

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Would it be to hard to implement a menu popup like the quick commands that will 
provide these buttons as a quick workaround until these can be implemented 
fully into the keyboard.

I personally like povilas' idea, in a sense some transparent icons, tiny ones, 
that give these options, almost like with the Gmail's App, with a quick icon to 
hide them incase they do get in the way.

Original comment by christop...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2010 at 7:01

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Issue 206 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 1:22

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[allen.porter]First steps would be to figure out what the UI might look like.[/ 
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Basically, like this :)
http://jbrink.net/images/touchterm/ss/KeyboardArrowKeys.png
(see http://jbrink.net/touchterm/support/commandKey.html for more screenshots)
NB: I'm not dying for that particular toggle method.

Original comment by dbo...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2010 at 9:49

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Hrm, perhaps its time to give up since that UI is much better than terminals :) 
Maybe people should just ssh localhost and be done with all of this.

Would it be sufficient to implement some kind of mouse-like cursor 
functionality to save screen real estate? That is, support some kind of cursor 
movement based on tapping on a particular position.
Another option might be to take out the terminal tab pagination and put the 
cursor buttons there instead.

Original comment by allen.po...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2010 at 6:42

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I don't care how good is *that* UI :^)  I was just suggesting similar arrow
behavior in Terminal.  Apart from that, Terminal has better ergonomics: 
gestures.

Taking out the terminal tab pagination may not be desirable for some users;
then again, it might work if it is implemented as a toggle.

The mouse cursor functionality (as a movement) might be a hindrance to gestures.
However, cursor movement based on tapping on a particular position will do just
fine, as long as it is intuitive (see attachment).

Original comment by dbo...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 10:47

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I think mobileterminal could do with stealing some of  frotz's code ( 
http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/ ).
They have a pretty intuitive interface where you can double tap words to put 
them in the command, tap the prompt area to have your history come up (and 
chose from it), and tapping in the main text area to get a quick commands... i 
really miss the old donut wheel, where you could do the arrow keys.

Original comment by demurede...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2011 at 6:35