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From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Message-ID: <3304@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 04:44:00 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <6140@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
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In article <6140@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
> i touch type.  generally i know that i have made a mistake before i even
> see what i have typed.  i don't even know what i am correcting when i
> correct, just that i have typed some wrong character (like the d in
> typed just now, i typed a space (and did it again just there ;-) and then
> went back and corrected it to be a d)  my question has always been: how
> many programmers, etc, touch type?

i also touch type.  but i am also insecure.  i like to see
what i am typing in.  you never know when your fingers are 
in the correct spot on the keyboard or whether you hit the
space bar to soon and you type something like:
	rm back * tmp*
instead of
	rm back* tmp*
this has happened to me before.  (even when i look, i make
mistakes when i type ahead).

danny chen
att!homxc!dwc