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In article <9009051757.AA20732@life.ai.mit.edu> gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) writes:
>  The basic movement commands are difficult to master because they involve
>  control characters, and the keys are widely separated on the keyboard, ...
>
>Use the arrow keys.  I rebind my left and right arrows to move by
>words, and thus I can use just the arrow keys to move quickly to within a
>word of where I want to be.

This is one of the commonest complaints I get when I try to persuade people to
use emacs-style editors round here: "But the arrow keys don't work...".  Most
of our dumb terminals are TeleVideos (or Wyse's emulating TeleVideos) that
send ^H, ^V, ^K, and ^L for the arrow keys.  What am I supposed to do with the
previous uses of these control keys ?  Particularly ^V and ^K which are pretty
fundamental.  I don't want to use a different keymap on every terminal round
here.

I generally just give people the mnemonics, and try to convince them that the
benefits outweigh the fact that you can't use the arrow keys.  They generally
mutter darkly and go back to our venerable grotty little buggy editor where
you can use them.

Rob
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