Xah Lee, You say this at your site: "This shortcut set is designed based on
ergonomic principles". What about efficiency? I guess ergonomics and
efficiency could be related. But not necessarily.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

> i've been a professional qwerty typist hired for data entry for 1+
> year in early 1990s.
>
> I've been a dvorak touch typist since ~1993.
>
> Started to use emacs, and daily, since 1998.
>
> So, my emacs experience is all dvorak, and it's all good.
>
> if you are thinking some sort of dvorak for typing and qwerty for
> hotkeys, don't do that.
>
> there are quite a few pages about dvorak and emacs... how much time
> did you google?
>
> if you want to try dvorak, just switch to the layout in your OS, and
> use emacs as is. That's the best way.
>
> a lot people uses dvorak with emacs too... too lazy to cite them here.
> You can find them on blogs...etc. Try to spend a hour web search,
> you'll find probably more info or blogs, comments, etc that will take
> more than 4 hours to read, at least.
>
> i have written quite a lot on the subject myself... you can read:
>
> • Xah's Emacs Tutorial
>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html
>
> • All About Keyboards, Keyboard Layouts, Shortcuts, Macros
>  http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/keyboarding.html
>
>  Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
>
> On Oct 3, 7:58 am, Johan Andersson <johan.rej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've been thinking for a while about testing Dvorak in Emacs (or Svorak
> for
> > me since I'm from Sweden). Before I started I out, I googled a bit about
> > "emacs dvorak", but to my suprise got really few hits about this. So I
> > thought I'd ask here.
> >
> > First off I found out that you could do *C-\ english-dvorak RET*, which
> > would activate Dvorak but still keep the the Emacs keybindings (So that
> you
> > don't have to type C-l to go to the previous line). But that does not
> help
> > me all the way, since I want to use Svorak. And by only switching the
> Xorg
> > keyboard layout to Svorak, I'd still have to somehow remap all
> keybindings
> > in Emacs.
> >
> > So the question is basically: How do I get Svorak working in Emacs? And
> do
> > any of you even use Dvorak at all? I mean Emacs users often use Emacs
> > because you can do things really fast, so I tought that many Emacs users
> > would use Dvorak.
> >
> > Thanks!
>