From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward Dodge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Date: 09 Dec 2005 15:03:21 -0700 Organization: Pending Review by Mr. Travis Bickle Message-ID: References: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134166648 21189 80.91.229.2 (9 Dec 2005 22:17:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 23:17:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkqWs-0007cF-Us for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:15:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkqXE-0003K0-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:16:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.netins.net!uunet!spool.news.uu.net!ash.uu.net!news01.intel.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hip389.ch.intel.com Original-X-Trace: news01.intel.com 1134165802 5870 143.182.229.21 (9 Dec 2005 22:03:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news01.intel.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:03:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136215 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:31829 Archived-At: 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 -- Edward Dodge __o _`\(,_ (_)/ (_) --- ---