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Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes


From: Garreau, Alexandre
Subject: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:46:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus (5.13), GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

On 2014-06-14 at 13:14, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, but when you program and write in English (like
> now), don't you use the US keyboard layout?

Using the US Dvorak keyboard layout is more efficient anyway, and easier
to learn than the horrible Qwerty.

> And with the US layout, ' (and so on) are easier to type than the
> chars you suggest.

The keyboard (layout) should adapt to you, not the opposite. You
shouldn’t be the slave of your keyboard layout.

And anyway if you used US Dvorak layout, you could just use Programer
Dvorak layout for programming, where “computer English” symbols are
really accessible, while making clean English symbols such as “”‘’… more
accessible with the US Dvorak layout.

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