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From: neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Dvorak and Alternate Keyboards
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Date: 27 Jun 91 15:45:03 GMT
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Organization: TU Braunschweig, CS Dept., FRG
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>>> Dave  Caughey writes:
DC>	
DC>	The toughest part was re-training my hands for all the editor
DC>	commands.
 
Yes.  And you definitely don't want the C-x prefix in emacs at the
dvorak position (C-b on qwerty).  There exists an xmodmap that maps
keys to dvorak layout, but leaves all control combinations where the
are...  Sorry, i haven't any experiences if this is a viable approach.

DC>	Are you "bilingual"?

This triggers another point: Dvorak is fine for English text, but bad
for some frequent letter-sequences found in German (my native language).

							Martin