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Re: Menu suggestion


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Menu suggestion
Date: 27 Apr 2004 10:21:44 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>     Yes, the arrow keys (which the user already knows how to operate) are
>     supported, so why waste time on learning the user something in the
>     tutorial which he will - at best - just find obscure, and - at worst -
>     turn him off from learning emacs at all.

> The Emacs cursor motion keys are essential to efficient editing.

C-f, C-b, and friends (just like touch-typing) are like micro-optimizations
that allow you to go faster by a given constant.  Emacs makes things
efficient via higher-level commands which are like
algorithmic optimizations.  I don't touch type and only occasionally use
C-f and C-n.

> People who use the arrow keys will never get good at it.

Thanks for your encouragement.
You seem to assume that the tutorial has something to do with efficiently
using Emacs.  If so, I think it should spend more time explaining C-M-f and
C-M-u (random examples) then C-f and C-n.


        Stefan




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