[..] > 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?
Hi Max, I don't think that the keyboard layout really does matter. If you care you will learn how to remap keys and how to switch keyboard layout. I've learned de (German), then switched to us because of / and writing paths on linux. Now I'm writing in dvorak. Sure it was hard in the beginning using different keys in vim. But you can learn it. Maybe just ask them why they don't like vim and why they prefer emacs? There are some things emacs does excellent. Eg it does take you less than 30sec to google how to run a cdb or pdb debugger in emacs. How much time do you have to spend on vim to do that? The reason I've learned vim and not emacs was that I couldn't navigate in emacs using c-f c-b c-n c-p. The cursor was never at the right place. Using ctrl-u seemed insane. And to be honest grabbing scripts from vim.org isn't the best experience either. But I'm working on improving that. Although vim has some limitations .. I don't want to live without it :-) Marc Weber --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
