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On 30 Aug 2006 16:10:30 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1156979430.026541.246940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:
> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>> 30 Aug 2006 11:16:32 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
>>>I have told you (a lot more recently than "several years ago") that the
>>>Shift key is a lot more convenient to type than the Ctrl key, so
>>>Underscore is preferable to Ctrl-I.
>> On my keyboards, shift and ctrl are quite near.
> Do you not touchtype? Ctrl is outside the normal range of movement of
> the typing fingers, Shift is not.
I touchtype, and I find Ctrl-I, Ctrl-B, etc. much easier
than the underscore. I consider the top row to be only
marginally within the normal range of movement, and the Ctrl
key on my keyboard is very large (hence hard to miss) and
just a little more of a stretch than the Shift key. (It may
make a difference that I use a split keyboard; on a
traditional straight keyboard the Ctrl key is a little more
awkwardly placed.)
Brian
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