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		codygman on Jan 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emacs Is My New Window Manager I've never understood claims that function keys are convenient, but I guess it's because I don't use them that much.

wglb on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

I agree that they are less convenient than the control key sequence, but better than the up arrow trick.

And it is a little worse on the kinesis, as the function keys are not the same quality as the rest of the keys.

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