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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:34:42 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.92 (darwin)

>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I think we should first mention that arrow keys work, then invite users to
> learn C-b etc. saying that editing will be faster.

This would be my preference as well, as well as to mention that the concept of
'b' meaning "backward" will recur in other contexts as they learn more.

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