From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bingham, Jay" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: key bindings Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:20:17 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F5040057EE@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039815134 10028 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 21:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:32:14 +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 18MxPo-0002bY-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:32:12 +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 18MxNV-0003Aa-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MxKE-0000Rd-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MxIm-00087C-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from zcamail04.zca.compaq.com ([161.114.32.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MxEJ-0005rA-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net (cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.105.250.94]) by zcamail04.zca.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F0B25A7 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:20:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.74.7.244]) by cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:20:18 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: key bindings Thread-Index: AcKi4kyzS8c0TPKCT229gQ0aUcKoogACiJ0g Original-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Dec 2002 21:20:18.0430 (UTC) FILETIME=[6FAC31E0:01C2A2ED] 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:4639 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4639 I have seen similar key patterns for cursor movement in other software. If I remember correctly WordStar, the word processing program, used the pattern i, j, k and m for cursor movement. -_ J_) C_)ingham . HP - NonStop Austin Software & Services - Software Quality Assurance . Office: 2122 Phone: 8945 . "Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. . Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." -Dr. George W. Crane- -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Rodgers [mailto:kevin.rodgers@ihs.com]=20 Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:52 PM To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: key bindings 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? --=20 Kevin Rodgers _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs