From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dvorak/Svorak in Emacs Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <70c362c8-9d38-4ac0-9e33-f110c7c844da@k13g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254884399 25417 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2009 02:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:59:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 04:59:44 2009 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 1MvMkg-00078o-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvMkg-00020S-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:59:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1254844289 10701 127.0.0.1 (6 Oct 2009 15:51:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.24 Safari/532.0, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173612 comp.emacs:99260 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:59:19 -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:68712 Archived-At: On Oct 5, 2:39 am, Johan Andersson wrote: > 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. typically efficiency is part of the consideration of ergonomics. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics Quote: =C2=ABErgonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well- being and overall system performance.=C2=BB Note the last few words: =E2=80=9C... and overall system performance=E2=80= =9D. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84