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by coldtea 2005 days ago
>This one is a real shame. I still can't believe it. If you select any text block, you can't navigate using Page Up and Page Down keys.

So? That's probably used by less than 5% of people anyway. Seeing regular users most would just use the mouse...
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krsdcbl 2004 days ago
No gain for 95% and a loss for 5% seems like an even worse outcome of changing default behaviour
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coldtea 2004 days ago
Only if you don't take into account opportunity cost.

You assume here that they've actively worked to change default behavior, but it is probably a zero-work-required by product of the widget they used (that gives them other capabilities thet do want) and to (a) revert to plain HTML textareas would remove this, (b) to add the default behavior to their widget would take extra effort.

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g7r 2004 days ago
5% is a lot! But even if it wasn't, it is not a proper justification for breaking basic things.
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