From: Hans-Christoph Wirth <hcw@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?
Date: 7 Oct 2003 17:29:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbo5mua.cbn.hcw@katla.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OYfgb.194$pd.166@news.level3.com
Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
> In article <vd0u16mtpjt.fsf@kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
> Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> >Well, considering where C-y is on an american keyboard (it's fine on a
> >German one, incidentially), makes one wonder if Emacs control
> >sequences where ever designed for anything but mnemonic value --- Most
> >of them certainly are in strange places.
>
> Almost all the key bindings that have been around since the early days
> (late 70's) were chosen solely for mnemonic value. I don't think
> ergonomics was given much consideration at all (I don't recall hearing
> about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or RSI until several years later).
I'd bet that vi's ZZ command (that is shift z z) is chosen because it is
very easy to type. (If you switch to the qwerty layout as I always do.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-07 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 8:03 C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? Barman Brakjoller
2003-10-01 8:43 ` Noufal Ibrahim
2003-10-01 10:16 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-01 17:02 ` Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.949.1065027827.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-01 17:39 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-02 16:16 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2003-10-07 18:33 ` David Steuber
2003-10-03 10:31 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-08 23:52 ` Jim Janney
2003-10-09 18:50 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-16 21:07 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-07 18:29 ` David Steuber
2003-10-09 17:11 ` Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.1425.1065719518.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:42 ` David Steuber
2003-11-03 2:34 ` David Combs
2003-10-01 12:00 ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-01 15:48 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-02 14:21 ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-06 17:30 ` Gareth Rees
2003-10-01 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 12:48 ` Jay Belanger
2003-10-07 18:40 ` David Steuber
2003-10-07 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-07 21:11 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08 8:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-08 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1313.1065608391.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-08 10:27 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08 15:47 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-09 18:16 ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? - OT now Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.1429.1065723394.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:03 ` Björn Lindström
2003-10-09 20:39 ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? lawrence mitchell
2003-10-09 18:15 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-01 12:36 ` Jim Ottaway
2003-10-01 15:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-01 16:43 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-02 13:59 ` Arthur Davis
[not found] ` <mailman.985.1065065051.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-02 8:40 ` Matthias Meulien
2003-10-03 10:31 ` Daniel B.
[not found] ` <mailman.1056.1065177296.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-16 21:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-16 21:13 ` lawrence mitchell
2003-10-06 14:21 ` Sven Utcke
2003-10-06 15:35 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-07 16:29 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth [this message]
2003-10-07 21:11 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-09 15:17 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-10-09 17:08 ` Daniel B.
[not found] <E1A4kP0-00064x-AV@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-10-02 22:45 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.1038.1065134760.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-06 14:23 ` Sven Utcke
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2003-10-16 22:32 Joe Corneli
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