On Fri, 11-Sep-2009 at 03:46PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: [....]
|> Well, not really!! My point (and certainly Charles Curran's point) |> is that in touch-typing you know by proprioception and |> neuromuscular coordination where your fingers are relative to the |> keys on the keyboard, and what key you will press next, without |> looking; and you can accurately press several keys in rapid |> succession -- just as a pianist can play an arpeggio without |> looking. [....] I was mostly kidding when I mentioned my guess at the reasoning for the default settings. However, paradoxically, I mostly agree with Ted and avoid using the mouse for every process *except* copy/cut & paste. It's a horses for courses thing. I use a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts such as looking up help files in preference to using the menu and mouse. Emacs users who choose to change the default setting in question will be unable to use the ones I use and end up not becoming aware of the nifty things possible. To that extent, I was not entirely joking. [...] -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.