"Danny D." wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:08:09 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I'll remain a two-finger typist.

It's like learning "vi".

You gotta learn it when you're young!

And, it stays with you, for the rest of your life.

PS: I still use Vi freeware on the Windows pc!

I became quite proficient with vi when it was the only editor on the Unix
(BSD and Unixware) that I used as a software developer in the 1990s. I
haven't used it much since because a WYSIWYG editor such as PFE
(Programmer's Free Editor) is generally quickly as long as you have a mouse
to select words, phrases and sentences. For altering the order of complete
lines, rather than for editing paragraphs of text, dd v shift-P (I think!)
can be quicker.

I wish I could find a decent Windows version of grep for pulling out all the
lines (maybe with line numbers) from multiple files. It's often quicker to
use grep to locate any emails that contain a certain phrase than it is to
use Windows Live Mail's Find facilities when you've got many thousands of
emails to search through. Unfortunately the version I've got can't handle
long file names so it tells me that the match is in 2CD672AE~1.eml and I
then have to do a dir /n /x to match that short name to the long name so I
know which file to open.


I use several fingers on each hand, but not the correct ones by touch-typing
rules. My wife types using only the middle finger of each hand, which looks
weird. She uses only her middle finger for pressing the on-screen icons on
her Android tablet as well.

I wish I could type more quickly but having learned by trial and error it
would initially be frustrating to have to type more slowly while I was
learning to touch type, even if it would benefit me in the long-term.