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Re: line-move-visual
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Jim Diamond |
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Re: line-move-visual |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:13:42 -0000 |
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On 2010-06-13 at 17:56 ADT, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> In comp.emacs Mark Crispin <mrc@panda.com> wrote:
>> This wouldn't have been a problem had the arrow keys been changed to
>> the new semantics and CTRL-A/E/N/P been left alone. The new semantics
>> are even arguably right for arrow keys (although I would go further and
>> say that they should also treat tabs as the equivalent number of
>> spaces). It isn't as if we're still in the 1970s and have keyboards
>> without arrow keys.
> The arrow keys are a long way away from the home position on the
> keyboard. You're surely not suggesting rebinding those four key
> sequences to something else?
Why not? Presumably (*) the idea of having long lines and moving to
the next visual line (as the default) is to placate word-processor
refugees, who are probably used to using arrow keys (regardless of how
far they are from the home position) and not interested in using
Ctrl-A,E,N,P.
(*) Wild speculation, since I didn't read the discussion on the
developer list. Mea culpa.
Jim
- Re: line-move-visual, (continued)
- Re: line-move-visual, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Joseph Brenner, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, w_a_x_man, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/12/09
- Re: line-move-visual, Mark Crispin, 2010/12/09
- Re: line-move-visual, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual,
Jim Diamond <=
- Re: line-move-visual, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Tim X, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
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- Re: line-move-visual, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Patrick May, 2010/12/09
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- Re: line-move-visual, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08