From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: use.address@my.homepage.invalid (Chris Gordon-Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arrow Keys? Date: 8 Jun 2009 20:05:55 GMT Organization: SimSoup Message-ID: <795993F1ngp7sU1@mid.individual.net> References: <791jqsF1otu7cU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244493649 31138 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2009 20:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 22:40:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDle9-0008Pu-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDle8-00072M-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net PQGA669Lot0jEuiA9ParaQ2RXm7yIZUt4MW5DIJcx/1Ci8i2I/ X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:wjhAHpeNcy5+Bs/X/fd873SFHSA= User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686)) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169828 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:65053 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Davin Pearson >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:55:38 -0700 (PDT) >> >> Isn't the purpose of Emacs to eliminate arguments over keybindings? >> Every Emacs user can customise their bindings to their own personal >> preferences. > > That's the idea, yes. But some people tend to argue a lot about the > default settings, for reasons that totally evade me in the context of > Emacs, whose customization features and extensibility are really > limitless. > No doubt Emacs is intended to be flexibile, but along with flexibility goes the possibility of doing things in a sub-optimal way. The Emacs tutorial (C-h t) says:- "You can use the arrow keys, but it's more efficient to keep your hands in the standard position and use the commands C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n." Perhaps this is right, perhaps not, but the fact that Emacs gives its users a choice does not remove the fact that some ways of doing things are better than others. Chris Gordon-Smith www.simsoup.info