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> Two years ago, a heavy bout of coding gave me some wicked wrist problems, and an ergo expert recommended I switch to vim. That is not an ergo expert. An ergo
by chrisdone 14y ago
> Two years ago, a heavy bout of coding gave me some wicked wrist problems, and an ergo expert recommended I switch to vim.
That is not an ergo expert. An ergo expert would tell you to stop typing with your wrists bent and resting them on your desk or keyboard “wrist pad” or whatever nonsense. Your hands should hover over the keyboard. I have never, ever had wrist pain and I type _a lot_. I'm not an ergo expert, I just type with proper form as recommended in any credible health & safety or posture guide.
- slurgfest 14y agoThere is more involved than typing words, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs#Emacs_Pinky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs#Emacs_Pinky
- tincholio 14y agoWhich can be trivially solved by moving CTRL to the CAPS LOCK position
- haldean 14y agoThey told me all of these things too, most of which I was already doing. Hover your wrists over your keyboard, elbows tucked in at your side, forearms should be parallel with the floor, eye level at the center of your screen, feet flat on the floor, lower legs perpendicular to the floor. But even after maintaining good typing posture for a while (and rearranging my workspace to be more ergo-friendly) the wrist pain didn't go away. It was gone in a week after I stopped using Emacs.