From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: SomeDeveloper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215658282 20364 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 02:51:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:51:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 04:52:09 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 1KGmGN-0005ul-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:52:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGmFW-0003bs-Ht for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:51:14 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.200.146.43 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215616978 18935 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2008 15:22:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.200.146.43; posting-account=l6jblgoAAAA92O_ZZXXSZzvYO6Dj_1as User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159997 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:50:08 -0400 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:55363 Archived-At: Hello, Just getting started with Emacs. Would like to get advice on how to train finger movement when learning/using Emacs. Should I try to continue to follow standard, English typing rules... where you park your fingers on the home-row, and then press a key only with the finger reserved for it? Or, should I feel free to jump arbitrarily or do whatever is necessary/convenient to become effective longer-term? Saw an article or two on the Net ( http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs ) where the authors are recommending swapping CAPS and CTRL keys. Not sure if this by itself would be enough, or if I would need to also break standard typing rules? For example: If I had to type C-x t C-u 8 0 using the standard typing rules, I would use ( ) Right pinky (C) Left ring finger (x) Left pinky (C) Right index finger (u) Right middle finger (8) Right pinky (0) How would you type the above? Similarly, an example recommendation of a complicated, Meta key combination would also help. Hoping to hear from Emacs experts and veterans. Thanks... Regards, /SD