Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Clay Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The first real text editor I used was Vim, which I actually started >> using about a year ago. I've looked at Emacs and it just looks >> confusing. > > I've been using emacs for so many years (um let's see, it's got to be close > to 25 years now; first saw it on Columbia's TOPS-20 systems in the early > 80's) that my fingers know what they're doing without my even thinking > about it. In fact, I used to work with another emacs nut. Every so often, > one of use would watch the other do something and ask, "What was that?". > Inevitably, neither of us could evoke the keystrokes we had just typed. We > would just re-do it, and watch our fingers to see what we typed. It didn't > even have to be on a keyboard; we could air-type it, and that was good > enough. > > In any case, the basic logic behind emacs is pretty simple. C-F is forward > one character. C-B is back one character. C-N is Next line. C-P is > Previous line.
It's worth pointing out to people making "loony" signs here that the arrow keys work too .... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
