From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change C-x prefix to C-k in a clean way? Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:53:01 +0000 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237549282 12214 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 11:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:41:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 12:42:40 2009 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 1Lkd7T-00089V-2f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:42:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkd66-0004gZ-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:41:10 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net t+rHSTpxi59q9V4I6XnmtkACQJtP4pzf1GBpMsQ7Bv/VtOKNw+8S5V78OgHwes3XEQWeC+hdhMp/oCxzj0pQnbqo9LS6Qm72LNMBL1lBKF9p89TtKD/XhLc20ZyElKcv Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:53:04 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: CZdLc3TYmEg2HyivgCftbXhVPyqpFwk8i8Xtj4S7Sw4= Cancel-Lock: sha1:V3EuWGEpUBbikI3YM9J2NuUANgU= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: oS6n+oWxiZTueFZNTlo5GMv9UT7iFNn4oSeI1jEUPno= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167835 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:63130 Archived-At: --=-=-= rustom writes: > > My specific (personal) problem is this: > It is certain that the amortized benefit of learning dvorak will beat > qwerty and keyscript correspondingly improves over dvorak. > > But to reap that amortized benefit one needs to assume an infinite > life to offset the time (and essdoubleyoueeayetee !) Well, I dunno. I reckon it was a month or so until I was faster typing dvorak than qwerty. I switched to "learn to type properly": I'd worked out touch typing on my own with qwerty and, although it was quick, I was heavily favouring my left hand and was having RSI problems. If you do decide to switch, I recommend printing out a paper "fake keyboard" to rest somewhere in view of the screen and to avoid looking at the keyboard at all. This seems to be the quickest way to get competent. However, an unexpected side-effect has been that I still don't actually know where any dvorak characters are without pretending to put my fingers on the home row... As far as using qwerty keyboards afterwards goes, I don't have any problem typing (once I realise that what I was trying to do is producing gibberish!), but keyboard shortcuts take some more thought. I wouldn't want to use qwerty emacs nowadays! Rupert --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAknDdY0ACgkQRtd/pJbYVoa8ogP+Jy56NeE5N3HIHSky6z0qN9k+ kE2sff3Qt2VO+KIfnfOQPYbnN+UfEXqcsCtgoxpNeYV3CFevtriePqiHDY1OQLW6 C92WMH+VcrtDfKfWtACo1yt57y2ti5PkQI8tm5C+HCUZyS4RbxCXwOIlsPC2kVZz AHD+8C4hpfvCju1V5sM= =cEm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--