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Shift+Space to scroll up in programs

See original GitHub issue

In scrollable programs like man and less, pressing Space scrolls one page down. Pressing Shift+Space to scroll up would be very helpful and is a convention in many programs but doesn’t work in hyper, could this feature be added?

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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chaboucommented, Jan 25, 2018

@albinekb agreed but adding keymap for scrolling (good thing!) will not work in less.

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jcrbencommented, Jul 8, 2018

It would be good for Shift+Space to be recognized - it’s nice to have the consistency in GUI and terminal programs. According to https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/13957 standards are emerging:

Lately, the situation is changing, because there have been two proposals to standardize on escape sequences. One is LeoNerd’s libtermkey with the syntax ESC [ codepoint ; modifier u. Another is Thomas Dickey’s xterm with the syntax ESC [ 2 7 ; modifier ; codepoint ~. Current versions of xterm (≥216) can be configured for either syntax by setting the formatOtherKeys resource; the feature must be activated by setting the modifyOtherKeys to a nonzero value.

this would let me accomplish https://stackoverflow.com/questions/279959/how-can-i-make-shiftspacebar-page-up-in-vim without the intermediate hack…