From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5852e5df-3270-430a-a89c-bc0810630f20@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218310860 12458 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2008 19:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:41:00 +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 Aug 09 21:41:51 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 1KRuJp-0004k9-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRuIt-0002eR-RV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218308495 29463 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2008 19:01:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161027 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:56374 Archived-At: On Aug 9, 7:47 am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote: > In article , > 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. > > Huh? > > I hold down the control with my left pinky, and then hit x and f. > > Easy, man. > > (It does help to have a Sun Type-6 keyboard, with the control > key exactly where it should be, just left of "A".) it is a myth that the proper place for Control key on keyboard is the one where Caps Lock is at. I guess the reason Control key is at that location has to do with earlier computing history. Roughly in the 1980s i think. At the time, the control key is not much used as a shortcut, but more as a way to enter non-printable ascii chars. The backdrop is that at the time, most computer users are simply programers. Business apps such as spread sheet, word process, didn't become popular until early 1990s. Drawing apps such as MacDraw, MacPaint, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator didn't come about till earlyr 1990s. Than, later, watching movies, playing games, checking news, stocks, online shopping, didn't come about till late 1990s. etc. The type of computer users has changed. Now, the vast majority, perhaps 95% of computer users, are not programers. And the use of Control key is just a shortcut. As a shortcut, and as a modifier, it needs to be designed where it is easy to press. The best place, is by the thumb, as designed in the Kenesis keyboard. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84