Hi, I've worked in the UK, US, China and now Finland. I'm a long time (since 1984) vi user, and it's been several years since I started using vim, gradually using more and more vim-specific features.
On my travels, I've met a few emacs users, but not too many (<10) and the majority seemed to use vi or some other graphical editor. However, I am now working in Finland, and almost everyone I've met uses emacs. Furthermore, it seems no-one uses vi/vim, and they seem amazed that anyone would use vi/vim - they seem to absolutely hate it. I would have expected *some* to use it - I know there are a few, but vastly fewer than in other places I've been. It was quite a shock, but only after a few months have I come up with a theory why this is, and this is my theory : The keyboard. I became used to a US keyboard in the US, but even going back to the UK on occasion, I find it quite easy to use vi. I have my own 'favourite' keyboard that I try to take with me everywhere, so I don't have to use a Finnish keyboard much; but I do have to sometimes, and I find that using vi is a pain on a Finnish keyboard. At first, I thought it was just that I wasn't familiar with the keys in the different positions, but I notice that some keys I commonly use are much more awkward to use - for example, '/' is something like shirt-7. On the other hand, many keys are quite similar, so I could well be wrong, but it made me at least consider it as a possibility. Are there any studies on this sort of this? IE, frequency of key use in programming and the relationship between the most used keys and their positions on the various keyboards? Max. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
