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Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?


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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