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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> Backtick sounds like a nice idea ergonomically (requires no modifiers,
> even shift, on american keyboard), which is important because that
> command might be used often, especially with numeric prefix and
> command postfix (`3 ` o' to save the file and such.)
> 
> Perhaps in this case ergonomy is more important than mnemonic-ness.
> The people who think otherwise can always press `W M B' or something.
> :-)

Backtick is very difficult to press on most European keyboards, among
them my Danish 102-key one.  It's a (shifted!) modifier for טלע...
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                           "Woo hoo!?"
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