On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:04:40 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: > On 3/25/14 12:27 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> my pdeclib constants extension will have alternate spellings for Π and > >> Γ > >> and Δ and others... > > That's good! (Although typing Π quicker than pi is majorly pushing it.
> Well, I'll tell ya, its exactly the same--- two key-strokes, believe it > or not. > Because the character selector is up on the gui (for me, far left) and > the two strokes are {mouse click the Π } and {mouse click the insert}; > rather than {p} {i} . There is of course a brief time-lag because my > right hand has to move the pointing device and my hand is off the > keyboard momentarily -- that is not a problem though, on my track pad > notebook. You are not counting mouse For an emacs user Looking at mouse counts as 3 keystrokes Touching is more like 5-8 https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs vi is probably even more hardcore in that vi is more economical ergonomially -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list