From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Alex Recker <alex@reckerfamily.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs movement keys
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:26:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft_FjvJajDcpUHxR4A5Ukc4h5R7bEF5cDHFQ3HW9Xki4XQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3lu8ay8tvntd27.fsf@reckerfamily.com>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Alex Recker <alex@reckerfamily.com> wrote:
>> And did you know that even outside Emacs you can move/delete wordwise by
>> pressing ctrl togeter with the right/left arrows or delete or backspace?
>
> I'm always surprised by how often C-a/C-e and M-f/M-b work in programs
> that aren't Emacs. Of course there is probably some historical reason
> behind this (as much as I'd like to think Google and Slack had emacs
> users in mind).
I've always envisioned a collection of "You know you're an Emacs user
when..." for instances where this *doesn't* work out so conveniently.
Like how many times I've C-y'd out of habit expecting to paste and
nothing happens!
John
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 19:38 Emacs movement keys Eduardo Mercovich
2016-08-23 20:49 ` Jorge
2016-08-23 21:01 ` Alex Recker
2016-08-23 21:18 ` Eduardo Mercovich
2016-08-23 21:26 ` John Hendy [this message]
2016-08-23 21:31 ` Alex Recker
2016-08-29 5:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-08-29 13:25 ` John Kitchin
2016-08-30 2:46 ` Vikas Rawal
[not found] ` <9739a10152f34fd298f3f2a5014f080a@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-08-30 10:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-08-23 21:17 ` Eduardo Mercovich
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