From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings through the ages Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:01:49 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1195020235.983333.46390@o38g2000hse.googlegroups.com> 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 1195144926 14963 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2007 16:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:42:06 +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 Nov 15 17:42:10 2007 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 1Ishmw-0003sj-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:41:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ishmj-0007h2-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:41:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.0.110 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195142509 16365 127.0.0.1 (15 Nov 2007 16:01:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.0.110; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153836 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:49268 Archived-At: On Nov 15, 7:06 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > emacs's keybind is actually the worst possible in both ergonomic and > > ease of use considerations. Likely a randomly generated shortcut set > > will have a 30% chance better. > > > See: Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful > >http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html > > Take a look at sticky modifiers: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers Thanks Lennart. This is just what I was looking for. Didn't know the name sticky keys so couldn't ask