From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-w3m question
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:25:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811031125.mA3BPPZu024539@zogzog.maillard.mobi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f28a20e-0c9f-4478-a85c-27ae40ed7fc9@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com> (message from Xah on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:38:37 -0700 (PDT))
in perhaps early 1990s, some keyboards do not have the arrow keys, or
that some applications (in particular, terminal applications) do not
necessarily support physical arrow keys by default.
Today, i think more than 99.999% keyboards and applications support
the physical arrows keys by default. The availablity of arrow keys i
think is pretty much standard by mid 1990s, and their support in
applications including term emulators is probably standard by 2000.
At work, I still have oldies that still do not support these
keys. What's more, directional keys are one of the dumbest
addition one could have thought off (in my opinion). The same
apply for numerical keypad: what are they useful for exactly ? Is
it that hard to press shift+& (for the azerty keyboard) to get a
1 ? Or press C-b to move point left ? I do not think so.
The real reason that comes to mind is lazyness. People do not
want to (take time to) learn how to do things, they want to go
fast (even if they go fast wrongly). Keyboard (or typing more
generally) is just an example, there are so many other applying
here...
End of digression for me.
Xavier
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2008-10-27 20:45 emacs-w3m question Francis Moreau
2008-10-27 21:09 ` henry atting
2008-10-27 21:36 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-28 18:40 ` Xah
2008-10-30 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-10-30 22:16 ` Paul R
2008-11-01 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-01 12:59 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.2625.1225539334.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-01 15:51 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-03 12:13 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-03 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2907.1225862955.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-05 13:23 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.2522.1225402310.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-30 22:38 ` Xah
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2008-11-03 12:36 ` Paul R
2008-11-03 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2772.1225715774.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-03 13:27 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-04 13:19 ` Chris McMahan
2008-11-04 14:19 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-05 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2764.1225711684.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <4d476218-bd76-4d41-8a12-1428dfba9e9b@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
2008-11-05 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2966.1225952942.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 14:31 ` Xah
2008-11-06 16:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-06 18:12 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 1:22 ` Xah
2008-11-07 3:50 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 5:42 ` Xah
2008-11-07 7:48 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 8:07 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.3000.1225988502.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 1:01 ` Xah
2008-11-07 10:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-07 10:29 ` Paul R
2008-11-07 23:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-08 1:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.3052.1226051600.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 17:43 ` Xah
2008-11-08 14:36 ` Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ? Maindoor
2008-11-08 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 15:09 ` Maindoor
2008-11-08 16:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-08 18:24 ` Saving registers (was: Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ?) Reiner Steib
2008-11-08 22:25 ` Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ? Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-06 18:02 ` emacs-w3m question Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-07 6:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.3010.1225993912.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 20:02 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-07 2:02 ` Xah
2008-11-07 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-07 10:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.3055.1226054611.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 20:10 ` Xah
2008-11-07 20:12 ` How to make friends. [was emacs-w3m question] Xah
2008-11-07 20:17 ` emacs is not Microsoft Word " Xah
2008-11-10 10:11 ` emacs is not Microsoft Word David Kastrup
2008-11-08 18:57 ` emacs-w3m question Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-08 21:33 ` Xah
2008-11-09 6:26 ` Wei Weng
2008-11-09 8:55 ` Xah
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.21.1226352538.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 22:38 ` Xah
2008-11-11 21:46 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-12 2:28 ` emacs-w3m question Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.106.1226439293.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-12 4:19 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] Xah
2008-11-12 11:28 ` Emacs command frequencies: Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-11-12 11:45 ` Paul R
2008-11-12 16:50 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] rgb
2008-11-13 12:47 ` Xah
2008-11-14 14:28 ` rgb
[not found] ` <mailman.129.1226489296.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-12 12:52 ` Emacs command frequencies: Sébastien Vauban
2008-11-12 15:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-13 14:33 ` Xah
2008-11-13 4:07 ` Xah
2008-11-01 13:03 ` emacs-w3m question Andreas Politz
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2763.1225711681.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 16:51 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-27 21:48 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-28 10:50 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-28 14:51 ` OtherMichael
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2022-11-02 12:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-02 17:44 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-03 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-08 3:58 ` Bob Newell
2022-11-02 13:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-02 17:32 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-02 18:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-03 17:56 ` Bob Newell
2022-11-04 2:02 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-06 22:49 ` Bob Newell
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2022-11-07 6:38 ` Bob Newell
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