Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?

[Arjan Bos <Arjan.Bos@nospam.ISeeYou.nl>]

Barman Brakjoller wrote:

> From the Emacs tutorial (C-h t):
> 
>  "You can also move the cursor with the arrow keys, if your terminal
> has
>  arrow keys.  We recommend learning C-b, C-f, C-n and C-p for three
>  reasons.  First, they work on all kinds of terminals.  Second, once
>  you gain practice at using Emacs, you will find that typing these
> Control
>  characters is faster than typing the arrow keys (because you do not
>  have to move your hands away from touch-typing position).  Third,
> once
>  you form the habit of using these Control character commands, you can
>  easily learn to use other advanced cursor motion commands as well."
> 
> Is it worth it? I'm using Emacs on w32 and Linux and are quite happy
> with my arrow keys, but the argument above about not having to move
> away from the main part of the keyboard sounds logical.
> 
> I would like to know about you other guys and gals experiences.

I'm using both. For example when I want to delete all characters of a 
certain column I just go C-d C-n which is quit fast. To transfer a line 
to a few lines above, I go C-a C-k C-k C-p C-p C-p C-y.
In both examples I continue to hold down the CTRL key with my right-hand 
pink.

But when I want to identify a small region I'd like to do TAB 
Cursor-down TAB Cursor-down, etc. [1]

Arjan

[1] I know I can identify a region, but this way I get more satisfaction 
by actually seeing what happens.