From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arrow Keys? Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <791jqsF1otu7cU1@mid.individual.net> 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: ger.gmane.org 1244418035 20128 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 23:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 23:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 01:40:33 2009 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 4.50) id 1MDRya-0002ge-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDRyZ-0006dr-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h28g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 118.90.56.116 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244415338 19180 127.0.0.1 (7 Jun 2009 22:55:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h28g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=118.90.56.116; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169796 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:65025 Archived-At: On Jun 8, 9:31=A0am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote: > =A0 =A0That depends on your typing habits. If you sit at the keyboard wit= h > =A0 =A0your fingers in the home position all the time, then they probably > =A0 =A0are more efficient. Otherwise, probably not. I can't stand the default Emacs keybindings. It is too easy to miss C- f/C-b/C-n/C-p and press a totally different key. For this reason I choose to use the arrow keys. I have redefined C-f and C-d to find-file because it is used so much. This proved to be a pain because nearly every major mode needed C-f/C- d to be rebound. Isn't the purpose of Emacs to eliminate arguments over keybindings? Every Emacs user can customise their bindings to their own personal preferences.