From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings through the ages Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:06:07 +0100 Message-ID: <473C524F.9000202@gmail.com> References: <1195020235.983333.46390@o38g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195135623 11123 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2007 14:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:07:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 15 15:07:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsfMt-00029F-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:06:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsfMg-0001SO-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:06:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsfMQ-0001QQ-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsfMN-0001OR-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:06:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsfMN-0001ON-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IsfMN-0005Yb-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64623 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IsfMJ-0007CN-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:06:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071114-0, 2007-11-14), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IsfMJ-0007CN-5E. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IsfMJ-0007CN-5E fcd6d2f0339d6733edf70c49dbd09751 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49266 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > emacs's keybind is actually the worst possible in both ergonomic and > ease of use considerations. Likely a randomly generated shortcut set > will have a 30% chance better. > > See: Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful > http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html Take a look at sticky modifiers: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers