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: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:36:40 +0200 Message-ID: <489E0DE8.2020606@gmail.com> References: <6841.1218316482@email.unc.edu> 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 1218317881 30166 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2008 21:38:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Combs , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Joel J. Adamson" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 23:38:51 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 1KRw9C-00063J-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:38:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRw8G-0002Hj-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRw7v-0002Eh-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRw7t-0002Cm-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48511 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRw7t-0002Cc-LZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:47329) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRw7t-0006LM-5Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:64339 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KRw7n-0001bc-8h; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:37:24 +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: <6841.1218316482@email.unc.edu> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080809-0, 2008-08-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KRw7n-0001bc-8h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KRw7n-0001bc-8h 0672b45db9ea2c1dd8230d85ff2490f6 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:56382 Archived-At: Joel J. Adamson wrote: >>>>>> "David" == David Combs writes: > > David> In article , > David> Joel J. Adamson 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.