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Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:34:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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
- RE: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, (continued)
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Chong Yidong, 2010/06/11
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Chong Yidong, 2010/06/11
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/13
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, David Kastrup, 2010/06/12
- RE: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Drew Adams, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Stefan Monnier, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, James Cloos, 2010/06/11
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Lennart Borgman, 2010/06/11
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Lennart Borgman, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/12
- Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p, Lennart Borgman, 2010/06/12