Re: dvorak worth the effort?
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
[..]
> I would recommend avoiding this except when you're stuck
on somebody
> else's machine, though. There are surely console keyboard configs for
> this.
Yes of course. Now since some of the list members are long time (Xemacs)
users I would like to hear their experience: when I have a lot to type
and pain starts, the switch to dvorak comes into my mind. However that
would mean,
- to undo and redo neuronal structures which are almost hard wired
into my brain (touch typing)
- getting stacked when using somebody else machine.
So did anybody actually tried dvorak out successfully?
I've been suffering hard from RSI in 2004, so I was unable even to
hold a pencil. I've dropped using computers totally, started injecting
bee's poison into wrists and elbows keep them warm. It took me
6 month to recover. After this I bought kinesis keyboard, switched to
dvorak and throw away the mouse. Now my workplace looks like this -
http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3RfhDWmOKBM/UThtDJHDaYI/AAAAAAAACQw/BTp...
Since then I forgot about RSI totally
About XEmacs. I've started using it in 1998 and after 6 years of
everyday use i've got used to the binding and it was quite hard to
switch to new layout in XEmacs. However, productivity started raising
in about 2 weeks or so. Dvorak fits XEmacsen binding very well, i
think it is much better layed out in drorak then in qwerty.
Using another machine with qwerty is not a problem, unless you have to
do some development there (in that case i recommend to switch the
keyboard layout). If you've been touchtyping in qwerty, you will
touchtype in both qwerty and dvorak after switching.
You will love dvorak for sure!
--
lg
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