From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: casioculture@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Date: 29 Nov 2005 21:38:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133329484 9150 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2005 05:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 06:44:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhKhZ-0007SK-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:40:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhKhY-0004yp-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:40:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.202.215.68 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1133329102 28499 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2005 05:38:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:38:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.202.215.68; posting-account=lrdvUQ0AAADic57Cqct60XFoZfsjWYRF Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135906 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31513 Archived-At: In the tutorial it suggests I use C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n rather than arrow keys, why should i? What's even more annoying is this: C-p requires left hand C and right hand p, and then C-b requries right hand C and left hand b. Same goes for C-f and C-n. Trying to get used to this is such a pain. It's ludicrous.