Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?

[Arthur Davis <adavis@torrentnet.com>]

Also, you could try catching the catching the control keys with the
outside of each hand and the Alt keys with each thumb.  This works for
me and leaves all my fingers free to reach other keys as usual without
much strain.

Arthur

Daniel B. writes:
 > Barman Brakjoller wrote:
 > > 
 > > >From the Emacs tutorial (C-h t):
 > > 
 > >  "...  We recommend learning C-b, C-f, C-n and C-p for three
 > >  reasons.  First, they work on all kinds of terminals.  Second, once
 > >  you gain practice at using Emacs, you will find that typing these
 > > Control
 > >  characters is faster than typing the arrow keys ..."
 > > 
 > > Is it worth it? 
 > 
 > Yes, but reconfigure your keyboard so that the Caps Lock key functions 
 > as the control key.  (I'm assuming you're using a PC-style keyboard.)
 > 
 > Emacs control-character sequences were designed when the standard place 
 > for the control key was just to the left of where the A key is (in the 
 > US layout).
 > 
 > Unfortunately, IBM put the Caps Lock key to the left of the A key, and
 > pushed the Control key down into a corner where it's hard to reach and
 > is extremely inconvenient for many Emacs control characters.
 > 
 > If you reconfigure your keyboard, you'll understand how Emacs control 
 > characters were meant to be used.  If you don't, you'll wonder how on
 > earth anyone can think control-character sequences are faster.
 > 
 > 
 > If you're running Emacs on Linux under X11 (e.g., GNOME, KDE), you can
 > reconfigure your control and caps-lock keys in X11's configuration file.
 > 
 > If you're running Emacs on MS Windows, see NTEmac's instructions; they
 > mention several ways to swap the control and caps-lock keys.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Daniel
 > -- 
 > Daniel Barclay
 > dsb@smart.net
 > 
 > 
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