From the Emacs tutorial (C-h t):
"You can also move the cursor with the arrow keys, if your terminal
has
arrow keys. We recommend learning C-b, C-f, C-n and C-p for three
reasons. First, they work on all kinds of terminals. Second, once
you gain practice at using Emacs, you will find that typing these
Control
characters is faster than typing the arrow keys (because you do not
have to move your hands away from touch-typing position). Third,
once
you form the habit of using these Control character commands, you can
easily learn to use other advanced cursor motion commands as well."
Is it worth it? I'm using Emacs on w32 and Linux and are quite happy
with my arrow keys, but the argument above about not having to move
away from the main part of the keyboard sounds logical.
I would like to know about you other guys and gals experiences.