From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1578157c-17a0-41ea-9420-9330f68b10fe@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <02a0d2ef-0b00-4038-b559-690516b4ed0a@a21g2000prj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298585681 21977 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2011 22:14:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: fortunatus Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 24 23:14:37 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsjSF-0002ws-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:14:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsjLI-0008Mb-B9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52380 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsjKp-00086n-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PsjIX-0006St-Pc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:63040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PsjIX-0006Sk-Ln for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: by iyf13 with SMTP id 13so689467iyf.0 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:04:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zR3o3XwooGigibCliHEh+AnGPCLyAdQ4pLQ8QRR92Dk=; b=Mo8NOuLYbyva/o269MuQ978qFC4o3O/YEmSon2At1RhWc3xIujSO+UfwV2HBopaTTd jmL97nflN9eGuHQdoI8Hy5cUCkfwDdAt7ipjlKVffqYf9GehEuXuzm/YIHI4pZsKqm7/ oCYitGSwL5wR5jbCaz6WuVmcjI36lzAXASmZQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CGz1tDMO9pOFOmC5nN91qBQudn7QegsEQoLlejClU7acKCc7p5OLVJX2YtvuTw4/PO 3VERDO1IGrpKTxv7xGT/OVTiPIJoFyYshZk3a75av/2YXkJ5ssBoENbvWCjXTWSCSM0r yPwdyWs56YRprBtc6/9CyilEaoVfR+1gwsu2Y= Original-Received: by 10.231.14.4 with SMTP id e4mr2261766iba.55.1298585072131; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:04:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.231.15.129 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:04:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:79452 Archived-At: 2011/2/24 fortunatus : > On Feb 23, 12:15=A0pm, Rafe Kettler wrote: >> You must be a Windows user. You must also not be an Emacs power user, >> because you think it's acceptable to use the arrow keys as cursors. If >> you don't, please use C-b, C-f, C-p, and C-n in place of the arrow >> keys. It dramatically improves speed. > > Don't go down that path: "vi" has a way-better key binding for cursor > movement!! > Possibly, assuming you're in "normal mode" or whatever they call it. And assuming that you use QWERTY.