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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Joel J. Adamson" <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
Cc: David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs?
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:36:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489E0DE8.2020606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6841.1218316482@email.unc.edu>

Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> writes:
> 
>     David> In article <mailman.14500.1215719199.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>     David> Joel J. Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> I would type it exactly as above.  I've seen people do "C-x C-f" with
>     >> one hand and it looks like it would kill their wrists after a while.  I
>     >> certainly do it faster than any of them.
> 
>     David> Huh?
> 
>     David> I hold down the control with my left pinky, and then hit x and f.
> 
> The discussion was about touch-typing, wherein the strategy is to hit a
> key with one finger on each hand at a time.  Holding down a key with
> your hand and typing with the same hand is therefore not touch typing.


Is not this just one strategy in touch-typing? I personally prefer 
Sticky Keys/Sticky Modifiers.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-09 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 15:22 How to type when using Emacs? SomeDeveloper
2008-07-09 18:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-09 20:24 ` Xah
2008-07-10  3:31 ` [Bulk] " William Case
2008-07-10  7:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-10  8:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-10 19:40 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-10 19:45 ` Joel J. Adamson
     [not found] ` <mailman.14501.1215719439.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-10 23:58   ` Miles Bader
2008-07-11  1:26     ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-11  3:31   ` Xah
2008-07-11  6:43     ` Cezar Halmagean
     [not found]     ` <mailman.14535.1215759012.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-11  6:58       ` Miles Bader
2008-07-11 18:57         ` Evans Winner
2008-07-16  2:37           ` Sean Sieger
2008-07-11 18:01     ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-11 18:48     ` don provan
2008-07-11 19:14       ` Evans Winner
2008-07-11 21:34         ` tyler
2008-07-12  7:00       ` David
2008-07-12 13:08     ` Xah
2008-08-09 14:52     ` David Combs
2008-08-09 15:07       ` Xah
2008-07-11 19:04 ` don provan
2008-07-11 19:33 ` harven
2008-07-11 22:34   ` Florian Beck
2008-08-09 15:07     ` David Combs
2008-08-09 19:03       ` Xah
2008-07-12  0:28 ` Memnon Anon
2008-07-12  1:13   ` tyler
     [not found] ` <mailman.14500.1215719199.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-11  4:59   ` SomeDeveloper
2008-08-09 14:47   ` David Combs
2008-08-09 19:01     ` Xah
2008-08-09 21:14     ` Joel J. Adamson 
2008-08-09 21:36       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-08-10  0:06         ` Joel J. Adamson 
     [not found]       ` <mailman.16246.1218317853.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-23 21:44         ` David Combs
2008-08-12  5:18   ` YSK
2008-08-12  8:02     ` Xah
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-10  0:49 Jay Belanger

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