[qutebrowser] tab navigation keys

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi,

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 01:16:11PM +0100, John Lane wrote:
> I just wondered why you allocated "K" to move LEFT along the tabs and
> "J" to move RIGHT ?

Because J is the vim-keybinding to go down, and it makes a lot of sense
to map "down" to "next"/"right".

Also, with vertical tabs (:set tabs position left) it'd be confusing if
J/down would go up.

> I realise it's personal preference, but was just curious why you chose
> to do it the way you did...?

Not entirely. It's what dwb does, and qutebrowser's keybindings are
designed to be compatible with dwb's, because it originally was a
replacement for many stranded dwb users (such as myself).

> Also, any reason why you never implemented ':x' as well as ':wq' which
> is, I believe, standard vi ?

:wq is aliased, :x isn't. Generally because qutebrowser is not vi, and
with some things it just doesn't make sense to try to shoehorn them into
qutebrowser. Even :wq is questionable - what do you expect "write" to do
in a browser?

Florian

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