From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
Subject: Re: Arrowless navigation
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:21:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877izwgstj.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7231.1158851870.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Vyacheslav Akhmechet" <coffeemug@gmail.com> writes:
> I recently disabled the arrow keys to avoid temptation. However, I
> find that default navigation is fairly uncomfortable: C-f, C-b, C-n,
> C-p. The keys are far away from each other and navigating like that is
> really stressful on the fingers. Why is this done this way?
>
> Do most people redefine these bindings? Initially I wanted to redefine
> to C-j, C-k, C-l and C-i (because they resemble the arrow keys and are
> close to the home row) but some of the most common emacs bindings are
> there. So how do the pros navigate?
>
You could try one of the other modes, such as CUA-mode to get CUA key
bindings. I think there are other modes as well, such as Wordstar
mode, and various other editor emulation modes.
HTH
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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2006-09-22 6:46 ` Arrowless navigation Florian Kaufmann
2006-09-22 9:21 ` Tim X [this message]
2006-09-22 16:23 ` don provan
2006-09-22 21:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-09-24 22:02 ` David Golden
2006-09-21 15:17 Vyacheslav Akhmechet
2006-09-21 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-21 17:22 ` David Hansen
2006-09-21 17:46 ` Vyacheslav Akhmechet
2006-09-21 20:06 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <b381ea40609212121o56de31e6xa96285dc861a5ab0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-22 4:22 ` Vyacheslav Akhmechet
[not found] ` <mailman.7258.1158898978.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-22 9:31 ` Tim X
2006-09-21 20:05 ` Xavier Maillard
2006-09-22 12:08 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.7249.1158869692.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-21 21:12 ` Jochem Huhmann
2006-09-23 15:39 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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2006-10-14 23:13 ` David Combs
2006-10-15 9:42 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-09-22 14:20 ` Giles Chamberlin
2006-09-22 22:11 ` Xavier Maillard
2006-09-21 20:02 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.7237.1158859969.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-14 23:07 ` David Combs
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