Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:09:44 +0200
>> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
>>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:29 PM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > In Openoffice.org, the arrow keys move logically.
>>
>> Seems like a mistake to me.
>
> What is the mistake?  What do you think James described by the above
> sentence?

I read it as meaning that the arrow keys does not always move
visually. (I.e. right arrow keys could move to the left.)

>> I think switching the visual directions of the arrow will interfere
>> badly because using them is most certainly in low level memory (body
>> memory) in the user.
>
> What program do you think switched the visual directions of the arrow
> keys?  Emacs doesn't do that: the <right> key moves to the right, and
> the <left> key moves to the left.  (They didn't, before I made the
> changes in the bindings of the arrow keys.)

Are you saying that the right arrow key etc will always move visually
to the right? In that case it is good.

Or are you saying that <right> key in Emacs now always does not mean
the right arrow key? That seems bad in my opinion.