From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215658320 20423 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 02:52:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:52:00 +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 04:52:47 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 1KGmH0-00060f-Op for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGmG9-0003rS-Bu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:51:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.space.net!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 65 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.muc.de Original-X-Trace: colin2.muc.de 1215629230 96338 2001:608:1000::2 (9 Jul 2008 18:47:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:47:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160004 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:55364 Archived-At: SomeDeveloper wrote: > Hello, Hi! > Just getting started with Emacs. Would like to get advice on how to > train finger movement when learning/using Emacs. I've used Emacs a lot for a long time. What I'm about to say works for me, but there's no guarantee it'll work for you. I suggest you take everybody's suggestions here and try them out. Then put them together in the way which works for you. > 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? I stick to English touch-typing rules. If you can do it, I'd stick with this. However, I've also got a secondary "home position", with my right hand down by the 4 arrow keys (middle, ring, pinky), (thumb) and (fore). > 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? I tried this once, but it didn't gain me enough to make it worth the hassle of re-learning. > 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. For some reason, I only use my LH for (apart from as described above). So my finger-sequence would be: L Pinky, L Middle (C-x) L Fore (t) L Pinky, R Index (C-u) R Index (8) R ring (0) > Hoping to hear from Emacs experts and veterans. Thanks... > Regards, > /SD -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).