From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: Assumptions on user's environment Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 18:43:38 +0100 Message-ID: <2014-02-09T18-37-03@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <87eh3f9pss.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87eh3eex15.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <87bnyhscai.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87y51lqlmt.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <2014-02-09T10-14-47@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <8761oosjfd.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <2014-02-09T11-04-33@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87mwi0v58v.fsf@gmx.us> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCYQ7-0005fY-TJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:44:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCYQ3-0005gQ-1p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:43:55 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCYQ2-0005gL-RL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:43:50 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WCYQ1-0007Xi-NW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:43:49 +0100 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:43:49 +0100 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:43:49 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Rasmus wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > >> Personally, I do think that tech-savvy users of non English speaking >> countries should definitely consider switching to US_intl layout for >> many reasons. > > What if the set of letters in English is a subset of the set of > letters in your the tech-savvy users language? This is the case with the German language. However, there are ways to enter German umlauts with us_intl layout (digraph). With Microsoft Windows as an exception, it is possible to switch keyboard layouts on keyboard shortcuts. However, when I am coding, I am only using English variable names and comments. So most of the time, I am happy with 7-bit ASCII characters. If you do not code nor use strange environments like LaTeX, you might as well ignore my comments about tech-savvy people which was maybe a bit too general. >> From my experience, only a minority of text-savvy users are doing >> so. > > Perhaps the objective that these users are maximizing another > objective than the one you have in mind? Yes, you are absolutely right. So "tech-savvy" is probably too unspecific as a term. However, "coders" seems to be narrow as well. Maybe you can think of a term in between? ;-) -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github