Re: Shortcut keys continued

[Ken Fox <kfox vulpes com>]

Petri Heinilä wrote:
> I guess the ctrl-a was simply a free ctrl-key. ctrl-b was for
> move-cursor-backwards.

Ctrl-a means beginning of line. A is the beginning of the alphabet.
You might say it's mnemonic by analogy. ;) Emacs stretches a lot
of its mnemonics -- ctrl-k for "killing a line" and ctrl-y for "yanking
lines back from the dead" are not obvious when you're looking for
the cut and paste commands. (Of course neither are ctrl-x and ctrl-v,
but somehow the Mac has escaped Emacs reputation for having hard to
learn key commands.)

- Ken