From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Recker Subject: Re: Emacs movement keys Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:01:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3lu8ay8tvntd27.fsf@reckerfamily.com> References: <87shtvl1hp.fsf@biologica.mercovich.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcIsr-00040R-Ic for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:05:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcIsm-0005Nu-HF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:05:20 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38517 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcIsm-0005LH-Ar for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:05:16 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bcIsb-0002Qh-Ii for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:05:05 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > And did you know that even outside Emacs you can move/delete wordwise by > pressing ctrl togeter with the right/left arrows or delete or backspace? I'm always surprised by how often C-a/C-e and M-f/M-b work in programs that aren't Emacs. Of course there is probably some historical reason behind this (as much as I'd like to think Google and Slack had emacs users in mind).