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Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why?


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n... why?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:59:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>    * BASIC CURSOR CONTROL
>    ----------------------
>
>    Moving from screenful to screenful is useful, but how do you
>    move to a specific place within the text on the screen?
>
>    There are several ways you can do this.  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.  These characters
>    are equivalent to the four arrow keys, like this:

I think phrases like "but it's more efficient" is a bit dangerous. I'd
rather want something like "but some feel it's more efficient". It all
depends on the user, his keyboard, his habits etc.


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