RE: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs

[Stephen F. Heffner]

Nat Goodspeed wrote:

> BUT -- since they knew every user had function keys, cursor keys, page keys,
> home/end keys, etc. etc., their default key bindings were comfortable: common
> tasks took ONE finger. I quickly became familiar with their conventions.

FWIW, there are those of us who are fast touch typists, and we don't want to
remove our fingers from the main keyboard; it slows things down a lot.  (I use
keyboards with eraser head track sticks as much as I can, for the same reason.)
I'll grant that the default Emacs key bindings aren't intuitive; but they have
the major advantage of (mostly) sticking to the touch-typing area of the
keyboard.  Function and keypad keys force a touch typist to interrupt his/her
train of thought, look down and find the key, etc.

Once the knowledge of those key bindings migrates down the brain stem and out
to
the fingers, it's not really a major issue.  In my observation, it doesn't take
very much use of a tool for that to take place (YMMV).

Another major advantage for those of us who must use many different computers:
The key bindings stay put, instead of wandering all over the periphery of the
keyboard depending on whose keyboard you have to use.  E.g., I don't even trust
"ESC" to be "where it belongs"; I use "CTL-[".

My 2c (plain), Steve Heffner

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