From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Daniel B." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F7D4FE7.389E510A@smart.net> References: <1c58a7c3.0310010003.78c0fa00@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065177376 14237 80.91.224.253 (3 Oct 2003 10:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 03 12:36:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5NIE-0006iq-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5NI7-0003yK-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5NG0-0003ab-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5NFO-0002wP-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [205.197.48.109] (helo=gemini.smart.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5NFM-0002rM-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from smart.net (IDENT:501@dsb.smart.net [216.253.158.43]) by gemini.smart.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA22694; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 06:32:18 -0400 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18+dsb+smp+ide i686) X-Accept-Language: en X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12977 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12977 Matthias Meulien wrote: > > "Daniel B." 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 -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net