On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:18:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:08:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Yeah. It gets to the point where using the keyboard feels more like > > > playing the piano. You're no longer typing, you're more doing pretty > > > simple "chords" on it, thinking not what keys you're pressing, but > > > what you want it to do. > > > > Indeed, and it's why the cryptic key sequences of vi don't bother me > > either. (I'm sure emacs would be the same if I got used to it.) > > > > I do play the piano, so maybe that has something to do with it ... > > I play trumpet, bugle, recorder, and to some extent drums, but it still > makes sense. I wonder if maybe the difference between people able to > cope with actually using a keyboard for a change and people who use > the mouse as a crutch may be whether or not they play a musical > instrument? I'm a keyboard junkie, but I don't play an instrument... mind you, I did learn to type before I went to school (I had an old Underwood Noiseless with lions and elephants on it). -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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