Control key vs arrow keys

Control key vs arrow keys

[gamaz]

I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the control key
as against keyboard's arrow key?

Any help is highly appreciate. Thanks.

Re: Control key vs arrow keys

[Lute Kamstra]

"gamaz" <gamaz@earthlink.net> writes:

> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the
> control key as against keyboard's arrow key?

Do you mean the use of C-f to go one character forward?  I think it's
a relic of the time when keyboards did not have arrow keys.  Now, most
keyboards do and you can also go a character forward with the right
arrow key.  Quite a number of people still use the C-f variant since
the control and the f key are usually closer at hand.

Lute.

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Re: Control key vs arrow keys

[Miles Bader]

"gamaz" <gamaz@earthlink.net> writes:
> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of the control key
> as against keyboard's arrow key?

For touch-typists, the control-key versions allow you to keep your hands
in the `home row' position.  This means that they're both faster and
easier to use, and interfere less with normal typing.

[personally, I use both -- the control-key versions usually, and
the arrow keys when I'm just browsing in gnus or something]

-Miles
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RE: Control key vs arrow keys

[Dmitri.Minaev]

One reason is telnet(ssh/rsh, etc) + crippled TERM that doesn't understand
some escape sequences.

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Dmitri Minaev


> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> I was wondering what is the reason for the preferred use of 
> the control key
> as against keyboard's arrow key?
> 
> Any help is highly appreciate. Thanks.
> 
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