From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs newbie Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4E293C6E.4000008@dogan.se> References: <4E11D33E.80208@easy-emacs.de> <8762mvb9o5.fsf@dod.no> <4E289B7D.7010803@dogan.se> <4E289BC4.2080100@dogan.se> <831uxivoaz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311325359 12574 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2011 09:02:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:02:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 11:02:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBcx-0002Br-K0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBcw-0000CS-Th for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBcs-0000C6-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBcr-0005cA-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.5]:58938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBcq-0005c4-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-105-155.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.105.155]:61891 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QkBc9-0005aa-Fy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:01:47 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <831uxivoaz.fsf@gnu.org> X-Originating-IP: 80.216.105.155 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1QkBc9-0005aa-Fy. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net 1QkBc9-0005aa-Fy 3105a08115421db3ddbc31eac200f654 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.5 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81722 Archived-At: On 2011-07-22 08:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:36:04 +0200 >> From: Deniz Dogan >> >>>> `l' takes you to the page you came from. You can press `u' to move "up" >>>> in the document tree structure. >>>> >>> >>> I think of the keys as mnemonics for "left" and "right" (like the arrows >>> in many web browsers). >>> >> >> ...because "r" moves you "forward" after you've pressed "l". :) > > Perhaps we should also bind M- and M- to > Info-history-back resp. Info-history-forward, because many browsers > and other apps use that. > I wouldn't mind this personally, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea since I can imagine a lot of users like moving between words with those keys. Especially in terminals where Ctrl+arrows don't work (if I remember correctly).