Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Cthun]

On 23/02/2011 12:15 PM, Rafe Kettler wrote:
> You must be a Windows user. You must also not be an Emacs power user

If by that you mean "you must be a normal, sane human being", then you 
are correct. :)

> because you think it's acceptable to use the arrow keys as cursors.

It *is* what they're there for.

> If you don't, please use C-b, C-f, C-p, and C-n in place of the arrow
> keys. It dramatically improves speed.

Hardly likely. For one thing those require extra keys held down, and for 
another, which one of them corresponds to which arrow? On my keyboard at 
least those are arranged like this:

.........p
...f.....
 ....bn.

which doesn't come anywhere close to forming a cross-shape or a T-shape. 
Furthermore, the letters themselves are not obviously meaningful (e.g. 
u, d, l, and r). So, they're not mnemonic. More time will be spent 
fumbling with them either trying to remember which one does what or 
using trial-and-error to re-ascertain which one does what than will be 
spent actually navigating.

Those key bindings are designed for things with tentacles and 
fundamentally alien minds. And non-qwerty keyboards. :)