From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, brakjoller@gmail.com
Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:52:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A1AD5A.5040302@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Emx5z-0003a6-4s@localhost.localdomain>
Xavier Maillard wrote:
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Mathias Dahl wrote:
>
> >How about
> >
> > There are several ways you can do this. You can use the arrow
> > keys or you can use C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n. Generally, many find
> > the latter more efficient in the long run because it keeps your
> > hands in the standard position. These characters are equivalent
> > to the four arrow keys like this:
> >
> >Thus avoiding expressions like "but it is generally more..." which
> >forces an opinion in the user. IMHO, of course. :)
> >
> >
> I vote for this one! It addresses the newbie which is the purpose.
>
>My vote goes to this one too.
>
>Xavier
>
>
And I think Per A enhanced it a bit ;-)
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2005-12-15 13:15 ` C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Lennart Borgman
2005-12-15 17:40 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-15 17:52 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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2005-12-15 20:43 ` Lennart Borgman
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