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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arrow Keys?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:38:45 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6rx5mbu.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uhbyl5pba.fsf@alum.mit.edu

On 2009-06-12 13:34 (-0400), John A Pershing Jr wrote:

> I don't understand what the problem is, here. The arrow keys work just
> fine, for those of you who don't/can't touch type. The mouse works
> just fine, too. And, the control-meta-cokebottle keys work just fine
> for those of us who *do* touch type. If you don't like C-f, then don't
> use it. It's as simple as that.

I think the point is this:

 1. Arrow keys are quite far away from usual typing positions so arrow
    keys' position is not optimal.

 2. C-fbnp are difficult or painful and certainly not ergonomic so they
    are not optimal either.

 3. By default there are no optimal keys for moving cursor.

And I would agree with that. It is possible to learn and master C-fbnp
keys but they are far from optimal and nice. Fortunately Emacs is
customizable.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-07 10:41 Arrow Keys? Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-06-07 11:02 ` Christian Herenz
2009-06-07 11:58   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-07 16:27     ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.162.1244392060.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-07 17:05       ` Xah Lee
2009-06-07 21:24       ` notbob
2009-06-08  5:13         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2009-06-08 11:46       ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-12 17:34       ` John A Pershing Jr
2009-06-12 18:38         ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2009-06-12 20:57           ` Jeff Clough
     [not found]           ` <mailman.556.1244868430.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-13 15:45             ` notbob
2009-06-13 16:12               ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-07 21:31 ` Chris F.A. Johnson
2009-06-07 22:18   ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-06-08  4:58     ` Ian Eure
2009-06-07 22:55   ` Davin Pearson
2009-06-08  0:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-13 17:13       ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]       ` <mailman.569.1244913073.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-13 18:08         ` B. T. Raven
     [not found]     ` <mailman.179.1244421488.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-08 20:05       ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-06-21 12:01 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-07-06  0:16   ` Miles Bader

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