"h" does not scroll left

[rosshadden]

I just installed this (and love it), but with unchanged settings I am unable to scroll left with the h key. What happens instead is I get a help output:

<Space>   One page forward          b         One page backward
d         Half a page forward       u         Half a page backward
<Enter>   One line forward          k         One line backward
G         End of file               g         Start of file
N%        percentage in file

/pattern  Search for pattern        ?pattern  Search backward for pattern
n         next pattern match        N         Previous pattern match

:n<Enter> Next file                 :p<Enter> Previous file

q         Quit                      v         Edit file
Hit Enter to continue

l, j, and k all work as expected.

[rkitover]

This is less.vim functionality to mimic the help screen of less.

Do you think I should just disable it or add an option to disable it?

[rosshadden]

I see why it's there now. People used to vi will never expect that h would bring up a help screen, but people used to less may freak out and try things like that. Then again, since vimpager does not come with your OS and you have to go out of your way to install it, that kind of weeds out people that expect h to do the same thing it does in less.

I do think we should rebind it, but at the very least I think an option to disable it would work. Anyone frustrated enough will come to the docs and see that they may disable it.

[rkitover]

I unmapped the 'h' binding in 1.8.4, now the cursor moves left on 'h' and right on 'l' when on a line.

To make this actually useful, I think what we need is a no-line-wrap mode where 'h' and 'l' would scroll left and right.

What do you think?

[rosshadden]

Yeah I like that idea. I've found by hitting the v key I actually end up in a mode with normal vim navigation bindings (IE hjkl move the cursor instead of the page). Not sure if that is considered a feature or not, but I like it because from there I can copy/paste is if in vim itself. What vimpager does by default is much more useful as a pager replacement of course, I just like being able to essentially switch between these modes.

[nasenatmer]

Hm, I'm not quite sure but I think I am also affected by this. Since I'm using a different keyboard layout - bone(2) I usually remap hjkl as follows:

no h j
no j h
no l k
no k l

However, this (still) doesn' work for h, it's still moving the cursor to the left, even if I unmap h before binding it to j.

Is there any other way to achieve this?

[rkitover]

Fixed in master.

[nasenatmer]

Thanks a lot! I hope this won't cause confusion with those people who expect h to activate help. But as it's called vimpager and not lesspager I think that this should be ok for most people!

[rosshadden]

I'm closing this, since it was added (a long time ago :-D)