That quiet sound you sometimes hear is emacs, calling you. I can type the => character in one keystroke using emacs, though my key combo does technically conta

That quiet sound you sometimes hear is emacs, calling you. I can type the => character in one keystroke using emacs, though my key combo does technically contain two keys. I could reduce it to one if I really wanted to. (And I might, because I just found an entire redundant key on my Kinesis keyboard that I never use -- the one right below the X key. Thank you for prompting me to look for such a key. To an emacs user, finding an entire spare key under a finger is like striking gold.) Similarly, I found that Ruby doesn't use ; as often as :, so I swapped the two when in Ruby mode. That said, I don't like the arrow operator either, but it has nothing to do with typing. It has to do with the other side of ergonomics: Visual clutter when reading. In a similar vein, the array() operator is my pet peeve: tons of redundant characters, even if you invent a macro for typing it.