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What's the point?
Authored by: macqueen on Feb 22, '02 04:45:29PM

In a word, "emacs".

This is a very widely used editor under Unix, and when using emacs probably around a third of all keystrokes are control keys. Most emacs users want a keyboard with the control key next to the A key for comfortable typing.

Control keys also tend to be used heavily in interactive Unix shell input.



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