Re: Viper: replacing text?

[Anselm Helbig]

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:19:14 -0400,
Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     The real advantage with the Viper keys is in my opinion perhaps that
>     you use the keyboard keys you reach very fast, ie normal letters. At
>     least for me reaching Control and Meta is a bit slower.
> 
> Right.  In fact, when I referred to vi as a `cool' editor that is
> exactly what I thought of as cool.  It was vi that made me think of the
> editor as a `computer game' well worth becoming good at.  But whenever I
> get that urge these days, it's gtypist that I turn to improve my touch
> typing ... often thought a emacs.typ (gtypist's tutor files are .typ
> files) with emacs key combinations---um, like the GNU/Emacs
> Tutorial---would be worth building.

Did you ever play keywiz? 

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyWiz



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Anselm Helbig 
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