From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:48 +0100 Message-ID: <438D5FF0.3030907@student.lu.se> References: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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 1133355278 3191 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2005 12:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 13:54:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhOZq-0008JY-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:48:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhOYZ-0006bQ-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 04:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EhNDk-0000x7-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EhNDg-0000wZ-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhNDg-0000wV-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EhNDf-0003Hb-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:21:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 438D13E80000CC30; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:50 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: casioculture@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1133329096.909577.80790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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:31519 Archived-At: casioculture@gmail.com wrote: >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. > > You might be interested in StickyKeys, please see http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32Util.html#keyboard. StickyKeys are available under a bit different names in some OS:es. See also http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/.