On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 03:40:41PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Stefan Sperling:
> 
> > In my opinion it would make sense to match less(1) behaviour and implement
> > half-page scroll for ^D and ^U. Or only offer the full-page scroll bindings
> > used by less(1), i.e. delete our ^D and ^U keybindings again.
> 
> The fundamental difference is that with a numeric prefix ^F/^B
> scroll by screens, and ^D/^U scroll by lines.  It's only if there
> is no numeric prefix that ^D/^U default to scrolling by half a
> screen.  tog(1) does not support numeric prefixes.
> 
> I also think it's questionable to use 'd' and 'u' as synonyms for
> ^D and ^U.  This is limited to less(1) and not present in vi(1),
> and we may want to reserve these keys for future functionality.

In my opinion less-like keybindings for scrolling (I'm talking about
'u/d' here, as Ctrl-u/Ctrl-d patch has been accepted) can be useful at
least for log and diff views, because their use most closely relate
to a 'pager' (not an editor, as vi) - basically it requires a lot of
scrolling, and probably we need to be close to 'less' as possible there,
to not make users re-learn their habits.

Also I assume those views are mostly used ones.

Do you (or anyone, of course) have thoughts on possible future 'u/d'
usage in log/diff views?