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From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: ergonomic keybinding. Need qwerty testers.
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:16:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d1b5fbb-b1ac-4ba1-ad0f-1c1d762e319a@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)

The erognomic keybinding has a new version.

http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html

A visual image for old and new layout can be seen at:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding_change.html

Description of the main changes:

• Added delete-backward-char, delete-char, delete-backward-word,
delete-word commands.
• The undo, cut, copy, paste, positions has been moved.

Since i don't use qwerty, i'm looking for feedback on qwerty users.
(i.e. in case i had some elisp code errors, or any issues that might
come up)

------------------

The reason for these changes is that recently Stefan Guath pointed out
“real-last-command” can be used to fix the problem with “this-command”
that is used in command-frequency.el. (this-command lumps several kill
commands all into just kill-region, so frequency distribution for
individual kill commands are lost)

With this change, command frequent stat shows that the commands to
delete previous/next char/word very frequently used, 10 times more
than say, undo, kill line, or copy and cut. So, now these have
prominent positions.

Here's a rough stat of the commands that changed position due to the
new finding:

 cmd name           frequency of use
-------------------------------------
 copy                      174
 cut                       less than copy
 paste (yank)             1691
 undo                      524

 backward-kill-word       2303
 kill-word                1074
 kill-line                 155

 delete-backward-char     6558
 delete-char               996

For full detail of command frequency and the elisp code, see
http://xahlee.org/emacs/command-frequency.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-29 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-29 21:16 Xah [this message]
2008-09-03  0:21 ` ergonomic keybinding. Need qwerty testers Will Parsons
2008-09-03 18:57   ` Xah
2008-09-03 20:30     ` Will Parsons
2008-09-07  4:20 ` Xah

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