From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Herenz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arrow Keys? Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:02:01 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <791jqsF1otu7cU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244375092 8237 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 11:44:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:44:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 07 13:44:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDGnx-0006Vo-J2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:44:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDGnw-0000c7-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:44:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX181C7thhNsjbqaniKvOJ1Q9PoYl6FLlgLf7vayRPs3Itk1A8/uJM9qEAqsWibzQPrPTwVtbkNuH0j+yqpCdwnRiL2UxJNroSK62dB5eTdtK971TuXihbCg/fQSoh93jHnO8UhDkpv8avw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:02:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <791jqsF1otu7cU1@mid.individual.net> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+lyj6altyP3vEbHtLnn6cx2KImugaZLQg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:AqFnwUMzTuOt+kEBBYJy3I/k3MQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090416 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169773 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65004 Archived-At: 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. Greets, Christian