Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs Subject: Re: when using emacs, get the keymap right! Message-ID: <22133@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 18:24:43 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.22133 Posted: Thu Jun 25 18:24:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 07:01:15 EDT References: <1283@cullvax.UUCP> <1183@osiris.UUCP> <5741@think.UUCP> <1559@phred.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: na Lines: 24 Xref: mnetor comp.sources.d:902 comp.emacs:1266 > One of the beauties of emacs is that you CAN set up your own keybindings, > allowing those of us who touch type to keep our hands on the home > keyboard, and move the cursor (or whatever) with combinations of > the plain old regular keys. Makes for a VERY portable editor, > and allows me to keep my eyes on the screen. Can you REALLY reach > all those function keys without looking? Yes, I can, and I touch type. A single counterexample is sufficient to demolish the premise that function keys and touch-typing are totally incompatible, and that counterexample is currently typing this message. I don't use function keys now, but that's just because I've never bothered rebinding the keys. At my previous job I became quite facile with a function-key editor; I almost always used a VT100, but that did not make me a special case - many other people also use one particular keyboard most of the time. It may be that *some* people find it inconvenient to touch-type when they use an editor that uses function keys, but "some" doesn't mean "all". It doesn't even mean "most". Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com