>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> Actually, qwerty was especially designed to be productive (not Stephen> counter-productive). On previous keyboards, typists pressed Stephen> keys in too quick sucession and jammed the mechanism, which was Stephen> counter-productive. qwerty was the _most_ (not least) Stephen> productive solution to that problem. But we don't have that problem any more. Stephen> No-one's come up with a better keyboard layout. Dvorak's not Stephen> really a keyboard layout, more of a whole new keyboard. I don't get what you mean by this. Stephen> Again, from what I've heard, dvorak's relatively hard to Stephen> learn (anyone can type a `x' on my keyboard, just look for the Stephen> `x' key, not so fast on a dvorak), Um, there are dvorak keyboards, you know. And on many keyboards, you can switch the key tops around. I heard that a typist can learn Dvorak in under a month. I think it took me about half a year, because I was switching between Dvorak and qwerty (Dvorak at home, qwerty at school). I think that's one of the big barriers to Dvorak. People don't want to have to switch layouts depending on where they are. Stephen> but faster to use when it's been learned. I don't know about faster, but it's a lot more comfortable. My hands don't have to move as much. It's great for preventing carpal tunnel syndrome. >> Btw, I regularly finf my self typing ":q!" in Word. I'm an emacs user, so I always hit C-x C-c in Word (when I'm forced to use it). Hubert
