From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thad Floryan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:32:21 -0700 Organization: ThadLABS Message-ID: <4FC01685.4080500@thadlabs.com> References: <5ee2582c-026b-4ab3-b5a7-c2d3e66ff511@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> <4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337988916 10773 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 23:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:35:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 01:35:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SY42K-0003wq-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 01:35:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY42K-00030t-4s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:35:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 25 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Ffcll78vPb9FFcAvz2XZlA"; logging-data="12440"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189P6TKfE7Ro5YLdmZF49xAZtTNP8bapqM=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:89jz1gLeas2JrXbWNVWagtlFdFU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192576 comp.emacs:102474 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84982 Archived-At: On 5/25/2012 3:47 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > [...] > Perhaps you'd be interested in reading my one hundred and twenty three > essays about why you shouldn't do that? > > 〈Computer Keyboards, Layouts, Hotkeys, Macros, RSI ⌨〉 > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/keyboarding.html Absolutely not. Your opinions about keyboards are only shared by an apparent minority of one: yourself. Every computer keyboard I've used since the mid-1960s has had the [Ctrl] key to the left of [A]. I use keyboards 12-16 hours a day and have NEVER had any RSI or other problems and I've "typed" over millions of lines of code over a 50 year span (I'm now retired but I still develop and write a *LOT* of code (programs, scripts, HTML, etc.)). My current keyboard can be seen here: and If you can't accept that, go pound some sand. :-)