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Article #79Re: Cross-Product Languages
From: ucbvaxC70editor-p
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1981 13:32
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1981 13:32
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>From dlw@MIT-AI Tue Dec 8 13:30:12 1981 With all due respect: no matter how much research you have done, I do not belive that Control-Meta-D is as hard to type as any three-keystroke command, given a real keyboard with proper Control and Meta keys such as we have at the AI lab. I have been using them for many years and there is absolutely no question about it, especially for an experienced user. Such experience does not take long to acquire, either. I would say that a Control-Meta-D type command is actually easier to type than a two-character sequence. And it is a LOT easier when you have to repeat them; I often type several Control-Meta-F's in a row to move forward over several Lisp forms in a buffer. Only the right hand, on the F, has to move; the others just sit there. [ Is it "ease" or "speed" that we are interested in here? They may be radically different, as various people have already pointed out in this debate. Whether correct or not, the keystroke/skilled-typist literature seems much more relevant to the "speed" than the "ease" issue, since ease is much harder to define and measure. JQJ ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-p From: ucbvax!C70:editor-p Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Subject: Re: Cross-Product Languages Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1981 13:32:05 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Aucb.127>