From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:17:13 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3l21bh2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <5isizsbzhu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppuwg1xy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373221219 31708 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2013 18:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 18:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 07 20:20:22 2013 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 1UvtZN-00015W-Kw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvtZN-00027r-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:20:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qaZIf2Rlm6zbz+a0PEgRVEMqYp4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199739 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:92006 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > A good keyboard layout for the touch typist. Everything was > relatively close to the home row. "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > ... for the typist, it was pretty much the same UX. What is all this "typist" talk? What is a touch typist? I take pride in my typing skills, and my experience is that that is sort of unusual even for computer people. A lot of people that I met, that had comparable computer skills to me, really couldn't type at all - they could, but slow and with lots of mistakes. And this didn't seem to bother them at all! Also, I always encourage people that uses the Swedish keyboard layout to switch the the US, because then you have much faster access to the brackets, semicolon, and more, that you need when you program. To this, people often say "I don't care" or something similar - wait - you don't care how you type, and this is what you do all day long? I think coding is nowadays almost as much a physical thing than it is analytic. And 90% of my configuration work has been related to this. For example, I have put hours of getting all my shortcuts to be in the 'A' to 'F' and 'J' to ';' areas of the keyboard, so I never have to reach. Scrolling D and F, navigation J, I, K and L, and so on. Here is an example: http://superuser.com/a/610507/106960 Also, in Emacs-w3m, I switch tabs with J and K - instead of the default (hold tight!) C-c C-p and C-c C-n - especially in Emacs-w3m, where there is no typing, the whole keyboard is available for shortcuts - why do they use such long sequences?! What's going on on? Am I normal? :) -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573