From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:54:17 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87h9gazm06.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> References: <87y49q64eg.fsf@russet.org.uk> <56E2291C.2070404@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457866977 5845 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2016 11:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:02:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 12:02:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1af3nM-0002SQ-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:02:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af3nJ-0005e3-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34049) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af3n5-0005dw-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af3n2-0003Xf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af3n1-0003TI-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1af3mu-0002FM-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:02:20 +0100 Original-Received: from p57acfb94.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.172.251.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:02:20 +0100 Original-Received: from dieter by p57acfb94.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:02:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57acfb94.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xYn0dCtjkY9NjmTwVqxCi6tB+j0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201585 Archived-At: Dani Moncayo writes: > The point is that they (C-[npfb]) all can be typed without moving your > hands away from their "normal" position in the keyboard. > > I find those keybindings _very_ convenient, and I use them all the time. The same here. > So I think that the tutorial should teach them at some point (because > new users may like them as many of us do). Definitely But I'm wondering if this preference of the home row comes from people which were toughed or learned touch typing. Maybe for the others this huge advantage is not so self evident and efficient? JM2C Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Kelkheim, Germany