Halim, Salman wrote:
This might not be a huge deal, but "bdw" is typed entirely with the left
hand if you're on a QWERTY keyboard (most people with English/US
keyboards) while "diw" switches hands. Unless you're pecking at the
keys with one hand, "diw" is simply much faster to type :)
Salman.
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I'm a one-handed typist (right-handed), and to me both are about equally bad
on ergonomical grounds. I don't think of what I do as "pecking" however: I
know where the keys are on my AZERTY keyboard, and I use all five fingers of
my right hand, which is not "riveted" to a constant location over the
keyboard: this makes for "reasonably" fast typing, maybe faster that some of
you decadactylographers ;-) .
I go with the previous argument however: bdw has the inconvenient of including
a "prepare step":
bdw (move);(delete(word))
diw (delete((inner)word))
In my mental model, bdw is two steps, diw is one.
Best regards,
Tony.
