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From: | Evgeny Panasyuk |
Subject: | Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
Date: | Fri, 11 Mar 2016 01:06:22 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 |
11.03.2016 0:39, Clément Pit--Claudel:
> C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b - are laid out on keyboard without any symmetry. Next, Previous, Forward, Back.I think Evgeny meant no physical symmetry.
Yes, exactly.Keyboard arrows, Numpad arrows, PgUp/PgDn, Home/End, hjkl, jikl, wasd - all have some kind of physical symmetry.
There are even extreme cases like Truly Ergonomic Keyboard where block of arrows is fully symmetrical to block of PgUp PgDn Home End: http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_images/truly_ergonomic_computer_keyboard_209_large.jpg
I guess such symmetry is key to ergonomics. -- Evgeny Panasyuk
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