Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  David Kastrup <address@hidden>,  
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:47:41 -0400
>> 
>> > (I am still dubious about decoupling the arrow keys and C-f/C-b
>> > keybindings.  Maybe we should provide a separate set of keybindings
>> > instead.)
>> 
>> It's actually not really decoupled.
>> It just switches between "C-f = right and C-b = left" and
>> "C-f = left and C-b = right" based on the paragraph's direction.
>> Which seems eminently meaningful since the associating between
>> "forward" and "right" is just based on our usual convention of
>> writing L2R.
>
> Exactly.
>
> That's also my hope.  And until and unless we hear otherwise from
> users of bidirectional scripts, I don't recommend considering any
> changes in that.

I use left and right cursor keys (actually, all cursor keys) together
with autorepeat for visual navigation: you press the key down, follow
the movement, and stop when you are pretty much there.  Logical movement
is not good for that.

-- 
David Kastrup