Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Tim X]

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 14:32, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>
>> Exactly and in fact, more effort and less convenient to move your hands
>> of the "home keys" to get to F4.
>
> I find much easier to type Alt-F4 than C-x C-c.
>

Are you a touch typist? I find C-x C-c really easy. I just hold down the
control with my right pinky and then just c and then x with the second
and third fingers of my left hand. What I like is my hands are pretty
much still on the home keys row. With any of the function keys, I have
to move my hand up to them, moving away from the home keys. 

I use a standard qwerty keyboard. For anyone using divorak or some other
keyborad layout, milage may vary. However, in general, I think moving
away from the home row/keys usually reduces speed and is less
convenient. (likewise, I use to like the VI movement keys because I
could easily move around the buffer without having to move off the main
keyborad. I use to find the need to hit ESC to change modes a bit
annoying for the same reasons. 

Tim


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