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From: | Daniel B. |
Subject: | Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? |
Date: | Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:31:03 -0400 |
Matthias Meulien wrote: > > "Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net> wrote: > > > (...) If you reconfigure your keyboard, you'll understand how Emacs > > control characters were meant to be used. If you don't, you'll > > wonder how on earth anyone can think control-character sequences are > > faster. > > If you don't, you'll have two control keys, and two meta keys (one for > each hand) : less hand movement... Less hand movement than what? If you reconfigure the keyboard by changing Caps Lock to be a control key, you have _three_ control keys. Except for typing capitalized stretches of text, how does leaving the keyboard unreconfigured result in less hand movement? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net
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