Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit
by hollerith on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:13PM
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In all the web browsers I've tried on Windows, Mac and Linux, up and down arrow scroll a little (roughly a twelfth of a page) and people spend more time in browsers than in any editor.
So I end up using Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p to move down and up a line in my editor so that I can customize my editor to make the up and down arrow keys behave like they do in browsers.
Like you, I am annoyed by comments that gush about how great it is to use Emacs keybinds in programs other than Emacs because in for example VSCode, the editor used by about 70% of the world's programmers, none of the Emacs shortcuts work: e.g., ctrl-n / ctrl-p don't move to the next / previous line. And I'm a heavy Emacs user.
So I end up using Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p to move down and up a line in my editor so that I can customize my editor to make the up and down arrow keys behave like they do in browsers.
Like you, I am annoyed by comments that gush about how great it is to use Emacs keybinds in programs other than Emacs because in for example VSCode, the editor used by about 70% of the world's programmers, none of the Emacs shortcuts work: e.g., ctrl-n / ctrl-p don't move to the next / previous line. And I'm a heavy Emacs user.