From: "Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:31:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7D4FE7.389E510A@smart.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2d6dgyqve.fsf@clarinde.localdomain
Matthias Meulien wrote:
>
> "Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net> wrote:
>
> > (...) 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 don't, you'll have two control keys, and two meta keys (one for
> each hand) : less hand movement...
Less hand movement than what?
If you reconfigure the keyboard by changing Caps Lock to be a control
key, you have _three_ control keys. Except for typing capitalized
stretches of text, how does leaving the keyboard unreconfigured result
in less hand movement?
Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 8:03 C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? Barman Brakjoller
2003-10-01 8:43 ` Noufal Ibrahim
2003-10-01 10:16 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-01 17:02 ` Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.949.1065027827.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-01 17:39 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-02 16:16 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2003-10-07 18:33 ` David Steuber
2003-10-03 10:31 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-08 23:52 ` Jim Janney
2003-10-09 18:50 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-16 21:07 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-07 18:29 ` David Steuber
2003-10-09 17:11 ` Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.1425.1065719518.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:42 ` David Steuber
2003-11-03 2:34 ` David Combs
2003-10-01 12:00 ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-01 15:48 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-02 14:21 ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-06 17:30 ` Gareth Rees
2003-10-01 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 12:48 ` Jay Belanger
2003-10-07 18:40 ` David Steuber
2003-10-07 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-07 21:11 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08 8:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-08 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1313.1065608391.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-08 10:27 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08 15:47 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-09 18:16 ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? - OT now Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.1429.1065723394.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:03 ` Björn Lindström
2003-10-09 20:39 ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? lawrence mitchell
2003-10-09 18:15 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-01 12:36 ` Jim Ottaway
2003-10-01 15:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-01 16:43 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-02 13:59 ` Arthur Davis
[not found] ` <mailman.985.1065065051.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-02 8:40 ` Matthias Meulien
2003-10-03 10:31 ` Daniel B. [this message]
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2003-10-16 21:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-16 21:13 ` lawrence mitchell
2003-10-06 14:21 ` Sven Utcke
2003-10-06 15:35 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-07 16:29 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2003-10-07 21:11 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-09 15:17 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-10-09 17:08 ` Daniel B.
[not found] <E1A4kP0-00064x-AV@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-10-02 22:45 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.1038.1065134760.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-06 14:23 ` Sven Utcke
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2003-10-16 22:32 Joe Corneli
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