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: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:04:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4875C28E.7000706@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215677135 30901 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 08:05:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: SomeDeveloper Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 10:06:19 2008 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 1KGrAC-0006PN-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGr9K-0002FW-Vj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGr90-0002Ea-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGr8y-0002Cp-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37643 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGr8y-0002Cm-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:42708) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGr8x-0001YV-8R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:63571 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KGr8s-0003aB-4B; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:04:44 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080709-1, 2008-07-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KGr8s-0003aB-4B. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KGr8s-0003aB-4B 498d16b635b51b0dba885c26bcaf359b 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:55371 Archived-At: SomeDeveloper wrote: > Hello, > > Just getting started with Emacs. Would like to get advice on how to > train finger movement when learning/using Emacs. > > Should I try to continue to follow standard, English typing rules... > where you park your fingers on the home-row, and then press a key only > with the finger reserved for it? I always use normal touch-typing rules. Maybe that would be difficult if I did not use sticky keys/modifiers: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers Beside that I try to use what I am accustomed to. So I turn on cua-mode and viper-mode.