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Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:14:11 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:26:42 -0700
>
> > Now please note an important detail: in a L2R paragraph, C-f generally
> > moves cursor _to_the_right_, even though it could sometimes change
> > direction and move to the left, when we are traversing R2L text
> > embedded into a L2R paragraph. Similarly, in a R2L paragraph, C-f
> > generally moves cursor _to_the_left_. In the important special case,
> > when L2R paragraphs include only L2R text and R2L paragraphs include
> > only R2L text, cursor motion with C-f is strictly to the right
> > resp. to the left.
>
> That sounds reasonable.
>
> > This is the reason
>
> What is the reason?
That important special case I described in the last sentence.
> > in a purely R2L paragraph containing only R2L text. Any
> > other operation would be confusingly counter-intuitive: the <right>
> > key would actually move cursor _to_the_left_!
>
> How is that different for C-f/C-b?
C-f/C-b do not have right/left connotation with them.
> Should one pair be counter-intuitive but not
> the other? Why?
Having C-f move to the left in R2L text is not counter-intuitive. To
the left is forward in such text, so it matches intuition exactly.
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