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I want avoid using arrow keys for navigation within emacs however due to being an habit its difficult to switch to native key bindings of emacs for navigation. I would rather like to disable arrow keys in order to avoid it completely. How can i disable arrow keys in emacs?

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    Disabling cursors is one thing, but doing C-s C-r search style navigation, is better.
    – ocodo
    Dec 30, 2012 at 6:19

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Put this Elisp code at the bottom of your ~/.emacs startup file:

(global-unset-key (kbd "<left>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<right>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<up>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<down>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<C-left>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<C-right>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<C-up>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<C-down>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<M-left>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<M-right>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<M-up>"))
(global-unset-key (kbd "<M-down>"))

and then restart Emacs. If you don't want to disable the Ctrl (C-)and Alt (M-) variants, just leave those sections out.

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This link is prob also relevant (its what I have just started using):

http://danamlund.dk/emacs/no-easy-keys.html

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    – Ben N
    Jan 10, 2016 at 5:03

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