Halim, Salman wrote:
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.
Tony,
I had indeed not considered those who either typed with one hand or used
a non-QWERTY keyboard. In retrospect, if I were typing with one hand, I
think I would prefer bdw to diw simply because the keys for it are close
together, allowing for faster entry.
Bdw is definitely two steps, both mentally and in actuality. As someone
else pointed out, you can repeat diw with a ., but not bdw, as it is not
atomic.
Regards,
Salman.
AZERTY is not very different from QWERTY: it swaps A with Q, Z with W, moves
the M to the right of the L, the digits to uppercase, and only the punctuation
really moves "wildly" (and differently in fr_BE [mine] than in fr_FR). (What I
wouldn't want is to have to use a Dvorak keyboard or one of those newfangled
two-part "Microsoft" keyboards which practically /require/ both-hands typing.)
For bdw I hit b, then I have to go still further away left to get dw. For diw,
I hit d with my right index, i with my right little finger, and there isn't
that much of a displacement to get at the w (which is where your z is). Of
course it may be different for real "hunter-pecker" monodactylographers.
Best regards,
Tony.
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