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Re: Arrow Keys?
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Chris Gordon-Smith |
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Re: Arrow Keys? |
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8 Jun 2009 20:05:55 GMT |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> Isn't the purpose of Emacs to eliminate arguments over keybindings?
>> Every Emacs user can customise their bindings to their own personal
>> preferences.
>
> That's the idea, yes. But some people tend to argue a lot about the
> default settings, for reasons that totally evade me in the context of
> Emacs, whose customization features and extensibility are really
> limitless.
>
No doubt Emacs is intended to be flexibile, but along with flexibility goes
the possibility of doing things in a sub-optimal way. The Emacs tutorial
(C-h t) says:-
"You can use the arrow keys, but it's more efficient to keep your hands in
the standard position and use the commands C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n."
Perhaps this is right, perhaps not, but the fact that Emacs gives its users
a choice does not remove the fact that some ways of doing things are better
than others.
Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info
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