### MinEd Keyboard and Keypad Functions

#### Keypad assignment

- Mined optimizes keypad usage for most frequently used functions, especially paste buffer functions in addition to navigation functions, by making them easily accessible on the keypad.
  - For this purpose, mined distinguished between Home/End keys on the numeric keypad and on the small keypad (whenever possible with the terminal) in order to avoid the waste of resources by the usually redundant mapping of these two keypad blocks.
- The centrally placed HOP key can be used for intuitive modification of navigation functions and for useful alternatives of paste buffer functions.

    Insert Paste | Home Line beg. | PgUp PgUp
    Delete Del/Cut | End Line end | PgDn PgDn
    7 Home Mark | 8 ↑ ↑ | 9 PgUp Prev
    4 ← ← | 5 HOP | 6 → →
    1 End Copy | 2 ↓ ↓ | 3 PgDn Next
    0 Ins Paste | . Del Del/Cut
    |  | with HOP: |
    7 Home goto Mark | 8 ↑ Screen top | 9 PgUp File beg.
    4 ← Line beg. | 5 | 6 → Line end
    1 End Append | 2 ↓ Screen bot. | 3 PgDn File end
    0 Ins Cross-window-paste | . Del ...+Append

- The Del key performs the usual dual-mode function; if a visual selection is active, it deletes the selection (with a Cut to the paste buffer), if there is no visual selection, it deletes the next character.
- Mined offers additional function mappings for modified keypad keys, both for providing unambiguous mappings in any case and to handle the deviation of its benefit-optimized Home/End keypad mapping from frequent expectations, and an option to customize Home/End:
  - Alt-Home/End are mapped to the Home/End functions of the other keypad, respectively. So by default, on the numeric keypad they invoke the line navigation functions.
  - The `-k` option exchanges Home/End functions of the small and numeric keypads with each other, and switches Alt-Home/End to also invoke the “other” function, respectively: keypad function assignments:
  - Ctrl-Del is always mapped to character deletion, while Shift-Del is mapped to the paste buffer Cut function, regardless of the visual selection.
  - Ctrl-Home/End are always mapped to line navigation, while Shift-Home/End are mapped to the paste buffer functions Mark/Copy, regardless of the `-k` option.
  - Alt-Del is mapped to the respective “other” function, depending on visual selection.
  - Note: Keypad function assignments as described depend on terminal support to distinguish all involved keys and modifiers which is unfortunately not always the case.
    Terminal support for proper distinction of different keypads and modified keys may be enhanced by appropriate terminal configuration, see the manual section on Keypad configuration.

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Thomas Wolff