From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:12:02 +0100 Message-ID: <439B60C2.8060802@student.lu.se> References: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <11pmkm7sol448a9@corp.supernews.com> <11pmo0bq0586s73@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134256384 4637 80.91.229.2 (10 Dec 2005 23:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 11 00:13:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElDtF-0007RC-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:12:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElDtf-0007b8-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElDtJ-0007at-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElDtH-0007ae-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElDtH-0007ab-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ElDuj-0007xP-8A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4396EEA4000F75A8; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:12:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "roodwriter@core.com" In-Reply-To: <11pmo0bq0586s73@corp.supernews.com> 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:31862 Archived-At: roodwriter@core.com wrote: > > Not to get into a big dispute about it, but I remember when I first > looked at the Emacs tutorial and saw you had to cursor with the > control keys, my first thought was maybe I'd bitten off too much. When > I found the arrow keys worked I relaxed and started learning. I've > always wondered how many people were intimidated by the cursoring > section and quit before starting. I wouldn't have had the initial > doubts if it'd been clear from the beginning the arrow keys were usable. > > But that's me. I'm glad Emacs does both. I remember the same thing. And I am glad Emacs does vi keys too ;-)