Re: Great SWT Program

In article <9ab6674d-958b-4013-81bd-066ede303459@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<twerpinator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 7, 4:38 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ snip ]

"io"?

Error: Sentence fragment of unclear meaning.

Clearer -- or so I claim -- if considered as a response to
something you said in the post to which I was replying. Hm,
how to do this without quoting from a post other than the one
to which I'm replying .... You had mentioned that "er" was the
only commonly-occurring English digraph that was fast to type.
I meant to suggest that perhaps "io" might be another. I'll try to
remember to spell everything out in complete sentences in future
posts.

[ snip ]

It all averages out in the wash anyway.

No idea what you're trying to say here. My claim is [something
irrelevant to the main point, which was that 2N > N when N > 0,
a mathematically irrefutable fact].

A mathematically irrefutable fact that's not particularly relevant
to whether it's faster to type 2N characters than N characters,
since, as you say:

Time to hit a key may vary based on what key preceded it,

but given a
constant pattern of input (e.g. English prose, or Java code, or
whatever) and enough time it should average out to a fixed value. If
that value is x > 0, and N > 0, then 2Nx > Nx and fewer keystrokes is
(on average) better.

It would seem so, but what I think Bent has been saying is that it
may be faster, for a touch typist, to press more keys, if by doing
so he/she can avoid pressing any keys outside the "old" part of
the keyboard. For example, it's probably faster for a touch typist
to press ctrl-s to initiate a search than for him/her to press F3,
even though they're the same number of keypresses (or the former
is more, depending on how one counts simultaneous keypresses).
That's the point that I think is getting lost, and why I stuck my
nose into this subthread ....

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
.

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