From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: buffer management in emacs Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 08:29:03 -0400 Message-ID: <84632y60hc.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87d3xwsbns.fsf@slack64.serverdot.org> <831g4rFrbrU3@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273321811 4085 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2010 12:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:30:11 +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 08 14:30:10 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAjAY-0005Mu-0i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 14:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OAjAX-0001m4-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OAj9r-0001ks-29 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32928 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OAj9o-0001j8-Do for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAj9m-0001U1-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAj9m-0001Td-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAj9h-00053k-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 14:29:17 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-200-97.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.200.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 14:29:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-200-97.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 14:29:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-200-97.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jJ3GoOa38ySWuLliOoyazvw2k00= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73575 Archived-At: despen@verizon.net writes: > Not if you have to move your hands from the home row and look at the > keyboard to type it (IMHO). Control isn't on the home row. Even using the left pinky on the control key, the x and b keys aren't that easy to reach. As with the use of in touch typing, one uses the `opposite' hand to type the modifier: Right hand little finger types , the left hand ring finger, `x' and index finger, `b'. And in fact, I think I remember being taught not to `hold' modifier keys, but type them with each character to be modified. Not the contortion you describe above; and as Kevin pointed out, never leave the home row. Want to type great? Install Gtypist and use it as if it were a video game. You'll learn to paint the screen with characters, words and sentences. OTOH, F9 is usually pretty easy to find, without looking, especially with the gap between the F8 and F9 keys. Using the buffer list isn't really a full speed typing thing either, at least not for me. It will be when you touch type. I can't just leave F9 sitting there doing nothing in Emacs.