From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:51:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: zedek@gnu-rox.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134209774 17182 80.91.229.2 (10 Dec 2005 10:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 11:16:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1El1kX-000207-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:14:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1El1kC-00028O-C3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:14:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1El1Rp-00073B-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1El1Rc-00071C-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1El1RY-00070c-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.41.184.169] (helo=smtp.gnu-rox.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1El1St-0007zo-Jr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.0.0.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554428BBFB; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:57:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zedek by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1El1O1-0004cb-O6; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:51:25 +0100 Original-To: Edward Dodge In-reply-to: (message from Edward Dodge on 09 Dec 2005 15:03:21 -0700) User-Agent: RMAIL/GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 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:31845 Archived-At: From: Edward Dodge casioculture@gmail.com writes: > In the tutorial it suggests I use C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n rather than > arrow keys, why should i? > > What's even more annoying is this: C-p requires left hand C and right > hand p, and then C-b requries right hand C and left hand b. Same goes > for C-f and C-n. > > Trying to get used to this is such a pain. It's ludicrous. > I think they're mnemonics: C-p(revious), C-n(ext) -- one line C-f(orward), C-b(back) -- one character I feel nuch more comfortable by using these key bindings than any arrow keys. This is simpler than trying to get in touch with these small arrow keys (at least on my laptop). Xavier