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Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? |
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07 Oct 2003 23:11:05 +0200 |
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Hans-Christoph Wirth <hcw@despammed.com> writes:
> Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
> > In article <vd0u16mtpjt.fsf@kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
> > Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> > >Well, considering where C-y is on an american keyboard (it's fine on a
> > >German one, incidentially), makes one wonder if Emacs control
> > >sequences where ever designed for anything but mnemonic value --- Most
> > >of them certainly are in strange places.
> >
> > Almost all the key bindings that have been around since the early
> > days (late 70's) were chosen solely for mnemonic value. I don't
> > think ergonomics was given much consideration at all (I don't
> > recall hearing about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or RSI until several
> > years later).
>
> I'd bet that vi's ZZ command (that is shift z z) is chosen because
> it is very easy to type. (If you switch to the qwerty layout as I
> always do.)
Uh, vi's hjkl commands certainly have also been chosen because of
that. But we were not talking about vi here.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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