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In article <mailman.14500.1215719199.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Joel J. Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>I would type it exactly as above.  I've seen people do "C-x C-f" with
>one hand and it looks like it would kill their wrists after a while.  I
>certainly do it faster than any of them.

Huh?

I hold down the control with my left pinky, and then hit x and f.

Easy, man.

(It does help to have a Sun Type-6 keyboard, with the control
key exactly where it should be, just left of "A".)

David