From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Vyacheslav Akhmechet" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Arrowless navigation Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:17:44 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158852178 24849 80.91.229.2 (21 Sep 2006 15:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 17:22:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQJN-0007RK-K8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQJM-0004OT-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQJ9-0004MF-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQJ8-0004Le-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQJ8-0004Lb-8D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.184] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GQQMf-0000Be-Kp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id q29so865999nfc for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:17:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=NjZ1XfwjVjutakvIfQ+x0K6UfVq+CIGD6aiMYaHrsqmTLcsJQcS2qEoyzgqdCzC22k9Y7NqnQb+6SNUW4v0dA4SoBbVkXc5zt01QjtoIPDPKq+R2/mM1vDXeWRgNsIOskHFCTS2OEepEVOUCZ/85A0b8xUiJTRomP650c+putMw= Original-Received: by 10.78.139.1 with SMTP id m1mr5102506hud; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.176.8 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline 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:37543 Archived-At: 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? Thanks, - Slava.