No special keys needed

Posted May 10, 2010 5:19 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Emacs 23.2 released by coriordan
Parent article: Emacs 23.2 released

is making cursor movement controllable without moving your hands from the home keys position. It makes navigating within files much quicker.

Yes, this is one of the big advantages. Another outcome of this is that yoy can work without any kind of special or function keys. In the past this was very important, because such keys they were different in every terminal model, or lacked entirely (one common example was ADM-3A, which was once a very popular dumb terminal, probably because of its low cost).

But you really have to get the basic Emacs keys into your muscle memory to appreciate it.