Re: Great SWT Program
bbound@gmail.com skrev:
On Oct 20, 11:44 am, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
If you're a touch typist, your index finger starts out next to the "h"; the
arrow is some distance away.
Irrelevant. I can find the H quickly regardless; it's finding "up"
that's tricky and slow when you have to make the unnatural mapping
"up" to "H" and THEN find the H. The latter step being fast doesn't
help much; the process is surely no faster than its slowest step.
Can't you understand that continuous practice makes that connection
instantaneous? There is no conscious thought involved between thinking
"up" and hitting "h".
I am not a vi user, but an emacs (or emacs clone) user since some 20
years, and I can understand how you internalize some key sequences.
Emacs today is a GUI application, if you want it to be. You can use CUA
key bindings, e g to mark regions. You can swap characters, words, or
lines with a simple key combination. You can capitalize a word, make a
word or region upper or lower case, by a key combination. If you repeat
a long word which has been used earlier (or later) in the current text,
you can start with one or more letters and then invoke auto-completion
with another key combination. Very useful when writing code. You can
compile code (C, C++, Java, etc) with M-x compile, etc, etc. After
compilation, you can navigate to "next error" with a simple key command,
and make the required changes on the spot. You can find a string in one
or several files and decide at each occurrence what to do, etc. You can
have several frames open in the same window, each frame independent (or
not) of the others. A frame can, for example, be used for shell commands.