From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans-Christoph Wirth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? Date: 7 Oct 2003 17:29:14 +0100 Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1c58a7c3.0310010003.78c0fa00@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065540723 14986 80.91.224.253 (7 Oct 2003 15:32:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 17:32:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6tof-00085J-00 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:32:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6toW-0003wy-42 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:31:52 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wind30.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Original-X-Trace: 7 Oct 2003 17:29:14 +0100, wind30.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Original-Lines: 16 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!uni-wuerzburg.de!wind30.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117102 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13030 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13030 Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Sven Utcke wrote: > >Well, considering where C-y is on an american keyboard (it's fine on a > >German one, incidentially), makes one wonder if Emacs control > >sequences where ever designed for anything but mnemonic value --- Most > >of them certainly are in strange places. > > Almost all the key bindings that have been around since the early days > (late 70's) were chosen solely for mnemonic value. I don't think > ergonomics was given much consideration at all (I don't recall hearing > about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or RSI until several years later). I'd bet that vi's ZZ command (that is shift z z) is chosen because it is very easy to type. (If you switch to the qwerty layout as I always do.)