the keys prelude pushes you towards with guru-mode are not the ones on the home row (hjkl, which is justifiable) but keys originally chosen for english words: n

the keys prelude pushes you towards with guru-mode are not the ones on the home row (hjkl, which is justifiable) but keys originally chosen for english words: n(ext), p(revious), f(orward), b(ack). It's mystifying, these aren't ergonomic at all, but just memnomics to help teach navigation _in the absence of clearly marked arrow keys_. So if anything, rather than being for gurus, these are keys for beginners. Dug out a quote from Guy Steele on why the key bindings in emacs got this way: [...] not being a human-factors guy at all, I didn't think at all about convenience for touch typists. I was principally concerned with mnemonic value. And so that's why Meta-C and Meta-L and Meta-U stand for capitalize and lowercase and uppercase. (from Peter Siebel's Coders At Work, quoted here https://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2015-August/008498.html https://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2015-August/008498.h...)