* Control key vs arrow keys
@ 2002-09-05 20:32 gamaz
2002-09-05 21:06 ` Lute Kamstra
2002-09-06 2:22 ` Miles Bader
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From: gamaz @ 2002-09-05 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the control key
as against keyboard's arrow key?
Any help is highly appreciate. Thanks.
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* Re: Control key vs arrow keys
2002-09-05 20:32 gamaz
@ 2002-09-05 21:06 ` Lute Kamstra
2002-09-06 2:22 ` Miles Bader
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From: Lute Kamstra @ 2002-09-05 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
"gamaz" <gamaz@earthlink.net> writes:
> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the
> control key as against keyboard's arrow key?
Do you mean the use of C-f to go one character forward? I think it's
a relic of the time when keyboards did not have arrow keys. Now, most
keyboards do and you can also go a character forward with the right
arrow key. Quite a number of people still use the C-f variant since
the control and the f key are usually closer at hand.
Lute.
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* Re: Control key vs arrow keys
2002-09-05 20:32 gamaz
2002-09-05 21:06 ` Lute Kamstra
@ 2002-09-06 2:22 ` Miles Bader
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From: Miles Bader @ 2002-09-06 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
"gamaz" <gamaz@earthlink.net> writes:
> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the control key
> as against keyboard's arrow key?
For touch-typists, the control-key versions allow you to keep your hands
in the `home row' position. This means that they're both faster and
easier to use, and interfere less with normal typing.
[personally, I use both -- the control-key versions usually, and
the arrow keys when I'm just browsing in gnus or something]
-Miles
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* RE: Control key vs arrow keys
@ 2002-09-06 6:17 Dmitri.Minaev
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From: Dmitri.Minaev @ 2002-09-06 6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
One reason is telnet(ssh/rsh, etc) + crippled TERM that doesn't understand
some escape sequences.
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> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of
> the control key
> as against keyboard's arrow key?
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> Any help is highly appreciate. Thanks.
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