I learned to type seriously not in an editor which respected CUA/Windows conventions, nor emacs conventions, nor vi conventions. It was the AMOS Basic editor, w

I learned to type seriously not in an editor which respected CUA/Windows conventions, nor emacs conventions, nor vi conventions. It was the AMOS Basic editor, which I think followed Rexx conventions or something weird. All I remember is that shift-backspace would delete the whole line, which was terribly easy to do by mistake and extremely frustrating for a kid who didn't touch type or know about undo. That's given me a lot less patience for people wishing to re-train me for some alternate way do do the very basic things in life. Standard interface design is a great idea. The standards we use, even QWERTY, are a lot better than many would give them credit for.