From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ergonomic keybinding. Need qwerty testers. Date: 3 Sep 2008 20:30:51 GMT Message-ID: References: <0d1b5fbb-b1ac-4ba1-ad0f-1c1d762e319a@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <07ab517a-3c56-434b-bf33-934cf9e4901a@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220499097 17202 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 03:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:31:37 +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 Sep 04 05:32:30 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 1Kb5a7-0005GH-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:32:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb5Z7-0001OO-Jq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:31:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1bcIR3Dx+eS8L0HPSAIo7wn7zMKrFIFR00rcwnXRTbPGfC0nwj Cancel-Lock: sha1:+7/Ny0xXVph5FDKHZhsSRIQzATs= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161903 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:30:13 -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:57248 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > similarly, 5 or 10 years ago i used to refrain from any customization > with emacs for fear of unable to use emacs elsewhere and fear of > screwing up something i do not know well. I think many people also > thought like this. But now i think this caution is overly exaggerated. I've generally been willing to override bindings that I don't use - with the exception of the basic cursor movement bindings. Even though I use the arrow keys almost exclusively for one-character cursor movement, I've always been reluctant to reclaim the standard C-f, &c. for other uses for fear of being at a loss in situations where the arrow keys don't work. > PS may i use your message in my testimonial page here? > http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding_good.html Sure - go ahead. > Thanks a lot. -- Will