From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arrow Keys?
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:58:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50906070458r606a56feqf73d128a7d03debc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h0g6n9$4u1$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Christian
Herenz<herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Chris Gordon-Smith schrieb:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah... I also tend to use them frequently for navigational purposes. But, I
> think the general idea is, that you dont have to move the hand away from the
> area which it is on, when you are writing.
... and you can of course use Emacs with a vi key interface (Viper)
which is (according to some people) more efficient ... once you have
learned it of course ... ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-07 11:58 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 [this message]
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
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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