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[Jay]

Greetings,
    An alternative keyboard layout oftentimes used in law firms is Dvorak. 
The most used keys in English are nearer the home row so your fingers 
spend more time centered on the keyboard and only occasionally have to 
"reach out" to more distant keys.  My Brother was a touch typist in both 
QWERTY and Dvorak.  I on the other hand, and more hunt and peck (grin)

       --- Jay  WB8TKL


On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, Steve Litt wrote:

> LAP said on Fri, 6 Jan 2023 08:05:08 -0500
>
>
>> Graphical editors usually have "hot keys" that can substitute for
>> all menu/mouse driven commands.  Furthermore, these keys are user
>> programmable.  There is no reason why a graphical editor cannot be
>> as speedy as VIM.
>
> The reason GUI editors with hotkeys aren't as fast, for the prolific
> touch-typist, as Vim is because Vim is modal, so you seldom need to
> type Ctrl+this and Alt+that, moving your hands of home position. The
> often used Esc key is a far reach that slows the flow, but in Vim you
> can define a new hotkey to fulfill the function of Esc.
>
> [snip]
>
>> The keyboard itself is often a major limiting factor.
>>
>> The standard QWERTY keyboard becomes extremely awkward and slow for
>> tasks like Unicode entry or mathematical typesetting.
>
> I type English so I'm not an authority on the preceding. That being
> said, wouldn't using a keyboard meant for the language you're typing
> minimize the input of Unicode?
>
> [snip]
>
>> The standard keyboard, remarkably, is based on a design that goes back
>> over 100 years!
>>
>> Innovative hardware in this area is sorely needed.
>
> Very true, and in fact QWERTY was designed specifically to slow the
> typist so as not to have two mechanical keys jam each other due to an
> insufficient interval between them.
>
> The challenge is to provide a layout so good and reasonably easy that
> current QWERTY touch-typists will convert.
>
> SteveT
>
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