I can work faster if I don&#39;t have to lift my fingers out of their &quot;home&quot; positions. To get to the arrow keys, I have to lift my fingers, look down at the keyboard, and re-place my fingers. I&#39;m finding using the emacs keys much more comfortable and quick.<br>
<br>Learning a whole set of key commands does take some time, but when you spend eight hours a day slinging text, is well worth it, I think.<br><br>-m-<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, plastichairdoo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:plastichairdoo@gmail.com">plastichairdoo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>I am totally failing to understand why the usual Opt-arrow keys aren&#39;t acceptable for you... is there some advantage to having to learn a whole bunch of new key commands? </div>
<div>maybe I&#39;m just missing the point. </div><div><br></div><div>BUT - now that I think about it - there is one issue that I&#39;d like to know about. why is it that in TM (and in TM only) the Cmd-arrow keys aren&#39;t bound to the end-of-line functionality? </div>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Morgan Packard wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Now, how would I go about selecting text while using these?<br>
-m-<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Michael Bøcker-Larsen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mblarsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">mblarsen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi<div><br></div><div>Maybe this helps</div><div><br></div><div>ctrl+f moves cursor one character forward</div>

<div>ctrl+b .. and backward</div><div><br></div><div>(hold alt/option to skip by word)</div><div><br></div><div>

ctrl+a beginning of line</div><div>ctrl+e .. and end of line<br><br></div><div>ctrl+n move to next line</div><div>ctrl+p .. and to previous</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>

</div><div>On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Morgan Packard <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:morgan@morganpackard.com" target="_blank">morgan@morganpackard.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>I&#39;ve realized I waste many precious milliseconds lifting my fingers up from their homes over to the arrow keys. Is there a key combination which will move the cursor left and right for me? How would I go about setting one up?<br>




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