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Re: Menu suggestion


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Menu suggestion
Date: 27 Apr 2004 13:05:50 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Yes, the arrow keys (which the user already knows how to operate) are
>     supported, so why waste time on learning the user something in the
>     tutorial which he will - at best - just find obscure, and - at worst -
>     turn him off from learning emacs at all.
> 
> The Emacs cursor motion keys are essential to efficient editing.
> People who use the arrow keys will never get good at it.

You may be right, but I have managed using emacs quite efficiently
without using those bindings for 20 years...  And I use CUA mode too.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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