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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT
Summary: Dvorak and EMACS
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.032830.16065@nmt.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 03:28:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep7.180323.8467@intek01.uucp> <1990Sep8.205929.14225@bpdsun1.uucp> <7677@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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Wes Hardaker (hardaker@iris.ucdavis.edu) writes:
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| Ok...  It sounds like the Dvorak keyboard is worth looking
| into at least, but now comes the question of where a decent
| typing tutor exists that recognizs Dvorak style?  Anyone?
| Anyone?
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I have a small booklet of typing exercises for the Dvorak
keyboard, but it is copyrighted by Smith-Corona.

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| I too am curious about using emacs with Dvorak and how
| that feels.  No one has responded to this question yet...
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I use emacs with a DSK all the time.  I remapped the control
characters to match the regular controls, so C-x is under
the new position of the X key.  I like it just fine.  It's a
little hard to do C-x C-s C-x C-c one-handed, but it's no
extra trouble if your hands are in the touch typing
position---and the whole point of DSK is to improve touch
typing.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber