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Re:Mastering Emacs by kbutler on Saturday May 23, 2015 @02:49PM (#9593893)
hjkl is QWERTY-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different keyboard layout, like Dvorak.

C-f, C-b are English-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different language.

Intuitive is hard.

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Re:Mastering Emacs by jamesondh on Saturday May 23, 2015 @08:27PM (#9594915)
Hmm, maybe someone should invent keys with arrows on them! :P
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Re:Mastering Emacs by emacsfodder on Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:24AM (#9595413)
That just sounds silly.
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