From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:50:29 -0600 Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <874qf7zlk5.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87mzszxlc1.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87wts2xrmo.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111363555 27774 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 00:05:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 01:05:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAQU-0006K0-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:05:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAhR-0001uZ-Ts for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAa9-0006My-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAa0-0006L9-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAZw-0006H3-KO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:15:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDABi-0007AE-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from lab45.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab45.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.159]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j2KNoTQ08404; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:50:29 -0600 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab45.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DDABh-00027K-00; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:50:29 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jochen_K=FCpper?= on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:33:29 +0100) 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25058 I guess I really was speaking rhetorically! Joe Corneli writes: > Thus, in addition to being able to press M-f, M-b, I also have > > (global-set-key [(meta right)] 'forward-word) > (global-set-key [(meta left)] 'backward-word) Hmm, my GNU Emacs 21.3.1 seems to have these build-in... And I do use them all the time (strange typing style included;)