From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: use.address@my.homepage.invalid (Chris Gordon-Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arrow Keys? Date: 7 Jun 2009 22:18:09 GMT Organization: SimSoup Message-ID: <792sl1F1mngmlU1@mid.individual.net> References: <791jqsF1otu7cU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244414443 13075 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 22:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 00:40:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDR2f-0003OS-79 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDR2e-0003Xt-PP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:40:40 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net KM5SMrwrs5LBW3J+YTDE/AiZZYtMzpo9geK9LGk5xBqRqau0cw X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:8L9C3RPtVAidR3EjiZZe/mk6ieI= User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686)) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169794 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:65023 Archived-At: Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On 2009-06-07, Chris Gordon-Smith wrote: >> Hello All >> >> I have recently started using Emacs on a regular basis. I read in the Emacs >> documentation that it is more efficient to use C-N, C-P etc. rather than >> arrow keys. Is this really true? I'm persisting with it, but those arrow >> keys still seem pretty attractive. > > That depends on your typing habits. If you sit at the keyboard with > your fingers in the home position all the time, then they probably > are more efficient. Otherwise, probably not. > Hmm. Well, I probably do. That may be a hard habit to lose. I'll persist for a while longer. Chris Gordon-Smith www.simsoup.info