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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:33:45 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> 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.
I think that the middle ground here is to talk about C-bfnp as examples
of keychords. The still get mentioned, but use of the keyboard does not
become the main focus.
Phil
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, (continued)
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Chad Brown, 2016/03/12
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Evgeny Panasyuk, 2016/03/12