From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: key bindings Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:51:51 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DFA3A57.1040605@ihs.com> References: <169a7283.0212131001.6550f502@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039809641 15803 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 20:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MvzA-00046M-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:00:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Mvu6-0006K0-0B for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:55:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039809099 36971570 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108106 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4637 I'm sure someone else will be able to show you how to enable CUA keybindings, but I have to take issue with your claim that C-f, C-b, C-n, and C-p are less intuitive than C-j, C-l, C-i, and C-i. The Emacs bindings have obvious mnemonics: forward, backward, next, and previous. Your suggested bindings based on the keyboard layout are like vi's (h, j, k, and l), but you use the top and bottom rows to represent vertical motion, which does make more sense. So how would you represent horizontal and vertical motion to the beginning and end of the line or buffer? -- Kevin Rodgers