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Re: How to type when using Emacs?


SomeDeveloper wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just getting started with Emacs. Would like to get advice on how to
> train finger movement when learning/using Emacs.
> 
> Should I try to continue to follow standard, English typing rules...
> where you park your fingers on the home-row, and then press a key only
> with the finger reserved for it?

I always use normal touch-typing rules. Maybe that would be difficult if 
I did not use sticky keys/modifiers:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers

Beside that I try to use what I am accustomed to. So I turn on cua-mode 
and viper-mode.


Gmane