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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: when using emacs, get the keymap right!
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 18:24:43 EDT
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> 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
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