Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:
Am 23.09.2013 09:07, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:03:30 +0200
From: Andreas Röhler <address@hidden>
Am 23.09.2013 02:18, schrieb Lennart Borgman:
The tutorial kind of throws other keybindings than the arrow keys on the
new user. Kind of patronizing if someone asks me. ;-)
Putting users first attention at that kind of matter, it also spreads a quit
unjust and wrong impression WRT Emacs and it's people.
That tutorial probably was okay twenty years ago.
No it reads as vim's ":q" is envied, proving emacs can make it difficult too.
When did you read it last time? also 20 years ago?
At the very first screen C-v is presented.
Nowadays keyboards commonly have an own key for it, no need to bother beginners
with this.
While later, certainly, it's preferable.
Next screen tells about C-p, C-n
That must have been changed very recently ;)
Perhaps. On the other hand, I use C-v M-v C-p and C-n much much more
often than the arrows and pgup/down keys, just for the 10 cm out (+ 10
cm back) I would have to move my hand to use them.
I only use arrows when I don't have my hands on the keyboards in the
first place, and even, to scroll down SPC is in a lot of mode much more
convenient too.