strongly considering giving in and becoming an emacs person
ok so, riddle me this, nerds: emacs, out of the box, supports all of the normal default OS text-editing shortcuts you might expect - arrow keys, pgup, pgdn, home, end, alt-arrow for navigating by word, shift-arrow for selection, cmd-c / cmd-v for copy / paste, cmd-z for undo. (I am trying it on my work Mac.)
After all that effort to make emacs fit into your normal environment, why on Earth does the built-in tutorial teach you to use ctrl-pn/bf for navigation? Who is this helping??
"We recommend learning the C-u method because it works on any terminal" please name me a device that runs emacs manufactured in this century that has a control key but no alt key
like, keep your muscle memory, old-timers, I don't begrudge you that at all, but this is a document for teaching newcomers, and I promise they have arrow keys and want to use them
"once you gain practice at using Emacs, you will find that typing these Control characters is faster than typing the arrow keys" I promise the people for whom that really matters will figure it out without it being in the second page of the tutorial
@SpindleyQ It might matter what you learn first, because if you learn only a suboptimal way to do things then you might find it annoying to try to unlearn it later. For example, I still haven't learned to use all the variants of word-based motion in vim and instead use weird things like "wh".
That said, I expect that a prompt "what you just did can be also accomplished by <foo>" might be better at combating that.
