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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Arrowless navigation
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:17:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef1ju7$hla$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uac4ramzu.fsf@comcast.net>

don provan wrote:
> As a learner, I think you're focused on the movement commands so much
> that you are forgetting that they are only four of hundreds of
> commands that are bound to various key sequences on multiple layers
> under your finger tips. As you learn the other key sequences, you'll
> find that the mnemonic help in remembering the less used commands and
> the vertical relation between control and meta is much more important
> than any initial desire to cluster the four movement keys in some
> central location.

Those are excellent points.  In fact, the 4 basic movement commands
usually become less used as one learns that there are more efficient
ways to navigate, and even more efficient ways to edit that require less
navigation.

-- 
Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.7231.1158851870.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-22  6:46 ` Arrowless navigation Florian Kaufmann
2006-09-22  9:21 ` Tim X
2006-09-22 16:23 ` don provan
2006-09-22 21:17   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-09-24 22:02 ` David Golden
2006-09-21 15:17 Vyacheslav Akhmechet
2006-09-21 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-21 17:22 ` David Hansen
2006-09-21 17:46   ` Vyacheslav Akhmechet
2006-09-21 20:06     ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]       ` <b381ea40609212121o56de31e6xa96285dc861a5ab0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-22  4:22         ` Vyacheslav Akhmechet
     [not found]         ` <mailman.7258.1158898978.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-22  9:31           ` Tim X
2006-09-21 20:05   ` Xavier Maillard
2006-09-22 12:08     ` David Hansen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.7249.1158869692.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-21 21:12     ` Jochem Huhmann
2006-09-23 15:39       ` Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found]       ` <mailman.7295.1159072918.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-14 23:13         ` David Combs
2006-10-15  9:42           ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-09-22 14:20     ` Giles Chamberlin
2006-09-22 22:11       ` Xavier Maillard
2006-09-21 20:02 ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found] ` <mailman.7237.1158859969.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-14 23:07   ` David Combs

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