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

[Nat Goodspeed]

At 11:13 AM 7/13/2006, Stephen F. Heffner wrote:

> > their default key bindings were comfortable: common
> > tasks took ONE finger.
>
> 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'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.

  Very true. But (a) it actively discourages newcomers, and (b) I 
still suspect that the reason has more to do with ASCII terminals 
than with fast typists...
  Time for me to shut up on this. My point is simply that keyboard 
customization is even more important for emacs than for most other 
software. It would be a wonderful thing if we could introduce special 
support to make that easy for newbies.