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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:22:58 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.92 (darwin)

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Keyboards have arrow keys. We shouldn't be talking about C-n/C-p in the
> tutorial.

As someone who never uses arrow keys, I'd argue that keyboards having arrow
keys is not sufficient reason to avoid educating users about C-n/C-p. In fact,
I use a utility on my Mac to universally bind C-n and C-p to be equivalent to
arrow keys in all other apps. :)

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