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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:26:42 -0700
> 
> > Now please note an important detail: in a L2R paragraph, C-f generally
> > moves cursor _to_the_right_, even though it could sometimes change
> > direction and move to the left, when we are traversing R2L text
> > embedded into a L2R paragraph.  Similarly, in a R2L paragraph, C-f
> > generally moves cursor _to_the_left_.  In the important special case,
> > when L2R paragraphs include only L2R text and R2L paragraphs include
> > only R2L text, cursor motion with C-f is strictly to the right
> > resp. to the left.
> 
> That sounds reasonable.
> 
> > This is the reason
> 
> What is the reason?

That important special case I described in the last sentence.

> > in a purely R2L paragraph containing only R2L text.  Any
> > other operation would be confusingly counter-intuitive: the <right>
> > key would actually move cursor _to_the_left_!
> 
> How is that different for C-f/C-b?

C-f/C-b do not have right/left connotation with them.

> Should one pair be counter-intuitive but not
> the other? Why?

Having C-f move to the left in R2L text is not counter-intuitive.  To
the left is forward in such text, so it matches intuition exactly.