Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?

[Ehud Karni]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:10:32 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > I think I know why Microsoft (and following them, openoffice) did
> > this non intuitive choice - They use shift+arrow to select text
> > strings and the string must be in adjacent memory locations.
>
> So does Emacs.

But Emacs does not select with the arrows, so it can work like Firefox
strict visual.

Ehud.


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