0:00:03.605,0:00:07.704 DREW: I actually have a Filco Majestouch keyboard, 0:00:07.704,0:00:10.974 so if anyone wants to try it out,[br]I've got it set up here. 0:00:10.974,0:00:11.942 In fact... 0:00:11.942,0:00:14.101 Shall we do a demo on the big screen? 0:00:14.101,0:00:15.202 So you can see what it looks like? 0:00:15.202,0:00:16.072 EMILE: Yeah, if you want, yeah. 0:00:16.072,0:00:17.476 DREW: You won't be able to see what's happening, 0:00:17.476,0:00:19.040 like, what keys I'm pressing, 0:00:19.040,0:00:20.773 but you'll see how quickly text comes out. 0:00:20.773,0:00:21.971 It's mental. 0:00:23.355,0:00:25.344 Looks lovely, doesn't it? 0:00:25.344,0:00:26.603 >> Do you take that to Starbucks? 0:00:29.986,0:00:31.719 DREW: All right, let's see. 0:00:36.939,0:00:38.110 All right. 0:00:38.110,0:00:39.413 Also, I'm using TextEdit, 0:00:39.413,0:00:43.248 because if you're in normal mode in Vim, 0:00:43.248,0:00:45.873 with steno, it's just like... 0:00:45.873,0:00:48.116 you know, if you put a beginner in front of Vim, 0:00:48.116,0:00:50.641 random stuff happens. 0:00:50.641,0:00:53.242 But you'll understand when you see this. 0:00:53.242,0:00:54.673 Okay, so I'm just going to make this... 0:00:54.673,0:00:56.813 Can I make this full screen or something? 0:00:56.813,0:00:58.441 Or just make it big? 0:00:58.441,0:00:59.743 Make it really big. 0:00:59.743,0:01:01.410 Okay, so this is -- 0:01:01.410,0:01:02.433 I'm running Plover, 0:01:02.433,0:01:05.877 and this is one of those keyboards[br]that does n-key rollover. 0:01:05.877,0:01:07.437 So I'm just going to -- 0:01:07.437,0:01:10.175 tell you what, I'll just mash the keys. 0:01:10.175,0:01:14.347 So everything that comes out in uppercase 0:01:14.347,0:01:17.242 is basically a chord[br]that doesn't have a designated word. 0:01:17.242,0:01:20.378 So, like, there are --[br]there's a Plover dictionary, 0:01:20.378,0:01:22.282 and anything -- when I mash some keys, 0:01:22.282,0:01:25.909 and random all-caps comes out, 0:01:25.909,0:01:29.076 it means there's no word defined to that. 0:01:29.076,0:01:31.846 So here,[br]I'm going to start a new line. 0:01:31.846,0:01:34.881 If I use both my index fingers,[br]that's like using the return key. 0:01:34.881,0:01:37.243 So...[br]New line. 0:01:37.243,0:01:39.382 And let's see. 0:01:43.351,0:01:44.846 The... 0:01:44.846,0:01:46.283 Um... 0:01:46.283,0:01:47.504 (laughter) 0:01:47.504,0:01:48.478 The cat. 0:01:48.478,0:01:50.116 Oh, no, that's not cat. 0:01:50.810,0:01:51.678 The sat. 0:01:51.678,0:01:53.611 The cat sat. 0:01:55.229,0:01:56.634 On? 0:01:56.634,0:01:57.897 How do I do on? 0:01:57.897,0:01:58.773 That's going to be... 0:01:58.773,0:01:59.905 On. 0:01:59.905,0:02:01.034 The... 0:02:02.646,0:02:04.394 Mat, that would be M-A-T. 0:02:04.394,0:02:05.586 >> It's so fast. 0:02:05.586,0:02:06.125 (laughter) 0:02:06.125,0:02:07.322 DREW: Yeah, it's incredible, isn't it? 0:02:07.322,0:02:08.558 So that was... 0:02:08.558,0:02:11.393 That was one stroke for each word. 0:02:11.393,0:02:13.992 But each stroke involved, like,[br]three or four keys 0:02:13.992,0:02:15.517 being pressed at the same time 0:02:15.517,0:02:17.859 but the way that, like, stenographers look on it, 0:02:17.859,0:02:20.761 you might be pressing ten keys at once,[br]but that's one stroke. 0:02:20.761,0:02:22.530 As far as they're concerned. 0:02:22.530,0:02:24.530 They can do maybe[br]five strokes a second. 0:02:24.530,0:02:28.522 Which sounds like nothing,[br]if you're typing at 110 words per minute on qwerty. 0:02:28.522,0:02:31.489 You're probably doing round about[br]10 keystrokes a second. 0:02:31.489,0:02:33.694 But five strokes per second[br]is actually quite slow, 0:02:33.694,0:02:36.927 but text just comes out, like,[br]really quickly. 0:02:36.927,0:02:38.623 So...[br]Let's see. 0:02:38.623,0:02:42.261 Does anyone want to try this? 0:02:42.261,0:02:47.094 I'm slightly...[br]So basically, like, there's loads of single keys 0:02:47.094,0:02:48.396 that will output a word. 0:02:48.396,0:02:50.560 Like, all of the shortest,[br]most common words, 0:02:50.560,0:02:52.292 just come out with a single keystroke. 0:02:52.292,0:02:57.166 So all of these words --[br]that's like one keystroke. 0:02:57.166,0:02:59.637 >> So does every word have to have a chord, then? 0:02:59.637,0:03:02.223 DREW: Yeah, every word has a chord. 0:03:04.038,0:03:04.972 Huh? 0:03:04.972,0:03:06.771 >> Single letters for (inaudible) Vim? 0:03:06.771,0:03:08.005 DREW: Okay, so single letters. 0:03:08.005,0:03:09.307 Right, the way it works -- 0:03:09.307,0:03:10.608 you've got the left hand. 0:03:10.608,0:03:12.104 It can spell the entire alphabet. 0:03:12.104,0:03:14.957 And the right hand can spell[br]only the parts of the alphabet that it needs to. 0:03:14.957,0:03:16.440 And the thumbs deal with the vowels. 0:03:16.440,0:03:21.706 And basically,[br]you form a word 0:03:21.706,0:03:24.907 by putting together a consonant,[br]a vowel, and a consonant. 0:03:24.907,0:03:26.776 And in the English language, 0:03:26.776,0:03:28.941 English words aren't symmetrical. 0:03:28.941,0:03:31.173 There are certain patterns that appear a lot[br]at the end of a word, 0:03:31.173,0:03:33.501 and there are certain patterns that appear a lot[br]at the start of a word. 0:03:33.501,0:03:36.890 And so the left hand[br]has a completely different layout to the right hand, 0:03:36.890,0:03:39.503 but both are capable of typing out[br]most of the alphabet. 0:03:39.503,0:03:42.508 But you can type all of the alphabet[br]with the right hand. 0:03:42.508,0:03:46.040 So if I hold down the asterisk key,[br]I can spell the whole alphabet. 0:03:46.040,0:03:47.900 I'll just demonstrate some of it. 0:03:47.900,0:03:50.904 So I can go a, b, c. 0:03:50.904,0:03:52.075 You know, this is pretty slow. 0:03:52.075,0:03:53.971 But basically, you never have to do this. 0:03:53.971,0:03:55.175 Oh, that's wrong. 0:03:55.175,0:03:56.907 You never have to do this, 0:03:56.907,0:04:00.739 because you've always got something --[br]you've always got a word. 0:04:00.739,0:04:03.144 It's only if you have to add[br]a new entry to the dictionary 0:04:03.144,0:04:05.140 that you actually have to --[br]they call it fingerspelling. 0:04:05.140,0:04:07.610 But yeah, so basically -- 0:04:07.610,0:04:12.358 someone pick a one-syllable word,[br]and I'll type it. 0:04:12.358,0:04:13.248 >> Dog. 0:04:13.248,0:04:15.488 DREW: What was that? Dog. 0:04:15.488,0:04:18.452 Okay, so with my left hand,[br]it would be -- 0:04:18.452,0:04:24.917 this finger presses two keys at once,[br]and then I use the O key with my left thumb, 0:04:24.917,0:04:26.689 and then G. 0:04:26.689,0:04:27.424 It sounds crazy. 0:04:27.424,0:04:30.287 It really does sound crazy, doesn't it? 0:04:30.287,0:04:33.820 Oh, I spelled the word dodge instead. 0:04:33.820,0:04:37.594 It's funny,[br]because everything turns out being phonetic, 0:04:37.594,0:04:40.821 and whereas in qwerty, it's very easy[br]to misspell a word, 0:04:40.821,0:04:44.490 in steno, instead,[br]what happens is a word comes out 0:04:44.490,0:04:46.654 that sounds like the word you meant. 0:04:46.654,0:04:47.653 It's really funny. 0:04:47.653,0:04:48.450 So okay, I'll try again at dog. 0:04:48.450,0:04:49.921 I think I did that wrong, actually. 0:04:49.921,0:04:51.444 There we go, that's dog. 0:04:51.444,0:04:52.724 It's pretty mental. 0:04:52.724,0:04:55.658 >> It's like the T9 dictionary[br]in old cell phones, isn't it? 0:04:55.658,0:04:57.170 DREW: Like which dictionary? 0:04:57.170,0:04:58.203 >> Predictive text. 0:04:58.203,0:04:59.335 DREW: Yeah, I suppose it is, yeah. 0:04:59.335,0:05:01.265 It's a bit like that. 0:05:01.265,0:05:03.732 Yeah, but basically the way you would[br]make it work with Vim -- 0:05:03.732,0:05:05.583 you would have to define a custom dictionary 0:05:05.583,0:05:08.468 with lots of chords[br]representing the Vim commands. 0:05:08.468,0:05:09.940 >> So emacs. 0:05:09.940,0:05:12.278 DREW: It kind of becomes emacs, yeah. 0:05:12.278,0:05:15.471 In fact, you could even create, like,[br]an emacs dictionary, and a Vim dictionary, 0:05:15.471,0:05:19.070 so that the same chords[br]did the same thing in the different editors. 0:05:19.070,0:05:23.763 You could create a steno Rosetta Stone-type situation. 0:05:23.763,0:05:27.409 >> It's perfect for pairing stations,[br]when people use Vim and emacs. 0:05:27.409,0:05:30.007 >> Yeah, how about that? 0:05:30.007,0:05:31.237 So if anyone wants to try that out, 0:05:31.237,0:05:33.109 you're welcome to. 0:05:33.109,0:05:35.304 It's pretty mental,[br]just mashing the keys 0:05:35.304,0:05:36.840 and seeing what comes out. 0:05:36.840,0:05:39.581 I wasn't quite expecting so much[br]random nonsense to come out there. 0:05:39.581,0:05:42.211 But I'll just try that again. 0:05:42.211,0:05:45.739 I'm going to press far fewer keys this time. 0:05:49.121,0:05:50.292 So you can imagine -- 0:05:50.292,0:05:52.089 if I actually knew what I was doing, 0:05:52.089,0:05:54.689 I would compose text very, very quickly. 0:05:54.689,0:05:56.754 >> So when is your next book out? 0:05:56.754,0:06:00.522 DREW: Actually, there's a really good community[br]around Plover, 0:06:00.522,0:06:02.322 and there's a book being written right now. 0:06:02.322,0:06:04.924 I learned about this stuff about a month ago, 0:06:04.924,0:06:06.855 and there was maybe three chapters of the book, 0:06:06.855,0:06:07.919 and now there's about seven chapters, 0:06:07.919,0:06:09.820 and I'm dying for the next chapter to come out, 0:06:09.820,0:06:12.792 because I'm stuck. 0:06:12.792,0:06:13.778 But it's really good stuff. 0:06:13.778,0:06:14.856 It's really worth trying out. 0:06:14.856,0:06:17.124 So if anyone wants to try it out,[br]you're welcome. 0:06:17.124,0:06:20.122 Because it won't work with the [br]built-in keyboard on your laptop, probably, 0:06:20.122,0:06:22.704 which won't be n-key rollover. 0:06:22.704,0:06:25.241 >> So next month we get the demonstration with Vim? 0:06:25.241,0:06:27.172 DREW: I don't know. 0:06:27.172,0:06:28.078 That's a lot to ask. 0:06:30.397,0:06:32.272 Maybe, maybe. 0:06:32.272,0:06:32.864 One of these days. 0:06:32.864,0:06:34.466 I would love to get this working with Vim, 0:06:34.466,0:06:38.562 but it's crazy talk now. 0:06:38.562,0:06:42.767 So you can see why now[br]if each one of these words is a single keystroke, 0:06:42.767,0:06:44.696 if you were in normal mode, 0:06:44.696,0:06:46.771 all sorts of crazy shit can happen. 0:06:46.771,0:06:50.700 So like I say, I think random[br]just doesn't even come close 0:06:50.700,0:06:56.086 to describing a beginner steno operating Vim. 0:06:56.086,0:06:57.891 >> Drew, how long have you been typing with steno? 0:06:57.891,0:06:59.164 DREW: How long? 0:06:59.164,0:07:00.292 >> Have you been typing with it? 0:07:00.292,0:07:02.896 DREW: Oh, I heard about it a month ago. 0:07:02.896,0:07:07.664 So occasionally I sit down[br]and try and actually do some freeform writing, 0:07:07.664,0:07:12.467 and it's quite funny. 0:07:12.467,0:07:15.229 I don't know if I have an example here. 0:07:15.229,0:07:17.163 No, I can't pull one out. 0:07:17.163,0:07:19.696 But yeah. 0:07:19.696,0:07:22.127 >> Would you second the claim[br]that we heard, 0:07:22.127,0:07:25.096 that in six months, you'll be typing 160 words a minute? 0:07:25.096,0:07:27.536 DREW: I think you would have to be studying[br]pretty hard to get there. 0:07:27.536,0:07:29.195 I'm doing... 0:07:29.195,0:07:31.633 So okay, comparing with, like, the learning curve 0:07:31.633,0:07:34.526 for qwerty or Dvorak, or any of those sorts of things, 0:07:34.526,0:07:37.700 with those, you learn the alphabet,[br]and then you can type any word, 0:07:37.700,0:07:39.426 just as long as you can spell that word. 0:07:39.426,0:07:40.830 Right? 0:07:40.830,0:07:44.497 But learning steno feels to me[br]a lot more like learning a foreign language. 0:07:44.497,0:07:47.724 In that you actually have to learn vocabulary. 0:07:47.724,0:07:52.664 But that said, the basic rules,[br]this idea of the left hand 0:07:52.664,0:07:54.295 deals with the first part of the syllable, 0:07:54.295,0:07:58.931 the right hand deals with the closing consonant,[br]and the thumbs do the middle bit -- 0:07:58.931,0:08:05.101 oh, and by the way, multi-syllabic words[br]just end up being one stroke per syllable -- 0:08:05.101,0:08:07.898 once you've kind of internalized those rules,[br]and you can find the keys, 0:08:07.898,0:08:10.764 it's amazing. 0:08:10.764,0:08:14.327 It's amazing how much of the English language[br]you can just guess, 0:08:14.327,0:08:18.095 and often words --[br]if there are different ways that you can pronounce it, 0:08:18.095,0:08:20.629 there are different chords[br]that would produce the same word. 0:08:20.629,0:08:23.699 So -- but then the thing is[br]that all of the most commonly used words -- 0:08:23.699,0:08:26.168 and again, this is a little bit like learning a language. 0:08:26.168,0:08:28.174 You learn all of the rules of French grammar, 0:08:28.174,0:08:30.485 and then you spend the rest of the time[br]learning all the exceptions, 0:08:30.485,0:08:33.076 and it kind of feels like that with Plover. 0:08:33.076,0:08:33.781 It's like... 0:08:33.781,0:08:38.249 Well, this book that I'm reading[br]isn't finished yet. 0:08:38.249,0:08:41.613 So I've learned all of the rules[br]that have been written about so far. 0:08:41.613,0:08:46.079 And there's gaps in my knowledge,[br]and I'm looking forward to filling those gaps, 0:08:46.079,0:08:48.315 but I've still got a lot of exceptions to learn, 0:08:48.315,0:08:52.015 and of course I've still got to get my fingers[br]actually finding the right words. 0:08:52.015,0:08:53.505 So... 0:08:53.505,0:08:55.317 >> And how good is it for writing code? 0:08:55.317,0:08:56.947 DREW: Apparently it's brilliant. 0:08:56.947,0:08:59.614 Shall I put up some videos of Mirabai Knight? 0:08:59.614,0:09:03.148 She's, like, the creator of... 0:09:03.148,0:09:07.215 >> If you type def in Python,[br]then I'm thinking the English dictionary 0:09:07.215,0:09:10.383 is going to write deaf, D-E-A-F, not def. 0:09:10.383,0:09:13.118 So you type def... 0:09:13.118,0:09:15.240 >> (inaudible) for C or Ruby or... 0:09:15.240,0:09:18.995 (inaudible) 0:09:28.211,0:09:29.776 DREW: Can you see that? 0:09:29.776,0:09:32.273 You won't be able to hear it. 0:09:32.273,0:09:36.077 That's too small, isn't it? 0:09:36.077,0:09:41.376 You can just about see where it's... 0:09:41.376,0:09:43.304 Okay, so this is nice,[br]because they're actually showing the chords 0:09:43.304,0:09:44.905 that are being typed. 0:09:44.905,0:09:45.500 This is slowed down. 0:09:45.500,0:09:47.467 So that's the chord for demonstration. 0:09:47.467,0:09:50.973 One key for of, because it's such a common word. 0:09:50.973,0:09:52.935 Plover is six keystrokes. 0:09:52.935,0:09:57.299 Or six keys, but it's one stroke. 0:10:10.609,0:10:12.841 This is massively slowed down. 0:10:12.841,0:10:13.444 Look at this. 0:10:13.444,0:10:15.527 It's like... 0:10:19.124,0:10:23.460 Mirabai Knight, who's demonstrating here,[br]she founded The Plover Project, 0:10:23.460,0:10:25.731 and she can type at 240 words per minute. 0:10:25.731,0:10:26.833 And that's what she does professionally. 0:10:26.833,0:10:31.564 She does realtime transcription for, like,[br]accessibility things. 0:10:31.564,0:10:33.376 Pretty amazing. 0:10:33.376,0:10:38.276 >> Are there fewer times[br]when you're reaching with your little fingers 0:10:38.276,0:10:39.639 around the keyboard? 0:10:39.639,0:10:43.106 Because that's generally considered[br]the emacs RSI thing. 0:10:43.106,0:10:46.480 So is it just that your fingers are more compact? 0:10:46.480,0:10:50.044 And you're just...[br]Rather than just lots of stretching 0:10:50.044,0:10:51.739 to shift, control... 0:10:51.739,0:10:55.547 DREW: Yeah, I think one of the reasons[br]emacs -- you know, they talk about emacs pinky. 0:10:55.547,0:10:59.746 Most of the time, when you're doing a chord,[br]on all modern software, 0:10:59.746,0:11:03.737 you're holding down some combination of[br]command, control, alt, shift, 0:11:03.737,0:11:06.172 which are all operated with the pinkies. 0:11:06.172,0:11:07.071 Maybe the thumbs. 0:11:07.071,0:11:08.268 Combination of pinky and thumbs, 0:11:08.268,0:11:10.870 and then maybe one finger pressing a letter, 0:11:10.870,0:11:16.598 whereas this chordal input method[br]puts equal weight on all the fingers. 0:11:16.598,0:11:20.904 Yeah, it maybe even puts more weight[br]on the stronger fingers. 0:11:20.904,0:11:25.490 It's very ergonomically designed. 0:11:25.490,0:11:30.430 There is an example of Mirabai[br]typing Python code. 0:11:30.430,0:11:32.831 So I'm just going to see if I can find that. 0:11:32.831,0:11:34.932 And it's really fast. 0:11:34.932,0:11:36.449 (inaudible) 0:11:36.449,0:11:37.762 Sorry? 0:11:37.762,0:11:40.825 (inaudible) 0:11:40.825,0:11:46.125 This was the presentation that I first watched,[br]which is worth checking out. 0:11:48.927,0:11:52.075 Ah, where is it now? 0:11:55.653,0:11:56.588 Let's try again. 0:11:56.588,0:12:02.393 Plover...[br]Python...[br]Video. 0:12:02.393,0:12:03.824 Let's try that. 0:12:03.824,0:12:04.906 Ah, here we go. 0:12:04.906,0:12:07.855 I can Google. 0:12:07.855,0:12:09.996 Here we go. 0:12:11.252,0:12:13.966 So that's realtime, basically. 0:12:17.745,0:12:21.878 It's pretty much one stroke per idea. 0:12:27.698,0:12:30.196 >> These are all regular words. 0:12:32.811,0:12:35.724 DREW: So it's a really quick demo. 0:12:35.724,0:12:38.524 >> How about snake case or camel case? 0:12:38.524,0:12:40.463 DREW: There's a rule for that. 0:12:40.463,0:12:42.996 So you know I was saying you can fingerspell. 0:12:42.996,0:12:46.794 The left hand can do the whole alphabet,[br]and then you hold down one modifier key, 0:12:46.794,0:12:48.926 with the right hand, and you get letters. 0:12:48.926,0:12:51.996 And if you hold down a different key,[br]you get capital letters, 0:12:51.996,0:12:54.930 and then there's a particular chord that says -- 0:12:54.930,0:12:57.556 make the next word camel case. 0:12:57.556,0:13:02.426 So start with an uppercase,[br]and then don't insert a space afterwards. 0:13:02.426,0:13:05.359 Oh, another thing about steno[br]is you don't have to worry about spaces. 0:13:05.359,0:13:07.629 It, like, automatically detects word boundaries, 0:13:07.629,0:13:11.256 which is one area --[br]it's the kind of thing I'm stuck with, at the moment, 0:13:11.256,0:13:14.865 because I often end up having words[br]joined together, or not joined together, 0:13:14.865,0:13:17.061 that shouldn't happen like that. 0:13:17.061,0:13:20.998 Yeah. 0:13:20.998,0:13:22.024 Can I show you one more thing? 0:13:22.024,0:13:23.731 I think this is quite cool. 0:13:23.731,0:13:27.264 When you're using something like this. 0:13:27.264,0:13:29.364 So I'm going to type the word silent, 0:13:29.364,0:13:32.068 which is two syllables. 0:13:32.068,0:13:34.262 But the first syllable is sigh, 0:13:34.262,0:13:36.233 and sigh is itself a word. 0:13:36.233,0:13:37.057 So watch this. 0:13:37.057,0:13:38.935 If I say -- forgive me, 0:13:38.935,0:13:41.264 while I take a moment to compose this. 0:13:41.264,0:13:44.166 So that was one stroke for sigh, 0:13:44.166,0:13:45.797 and then if I do a stroke for lent, 0:13:45.797,0:13:47.095 lent is also a word, 0:13:47.095,0:13:48.958 but silent is a word. 0:13:48.958,0:13:50.427 So I'm going to say... 0:13:50.427,0:13:52.964 L-E-N-T. 0:13:52.964,0:13:54.267 That should be good. 0:13:54.267,0:13:55.500 See what happened there? 0:13:55.500,0:13:56.762 It swallowed up the word sigh, 0:13:56.762,0:13:58.429 and changed it, 0:13:58.429,0:14:00.399 changed it into silent. 0:14:00.399,0:14:01.569 So that is something you'll often see, 0:14:01.569,0:14:05.167 if you watch somebody typing with steno. 0:14:05.167,0:14:06.493 You see words appearing, 0:14:06.493,0:14:08.029 and then being swallowed up, 0:14:08.029,0:14:10.828 and sort of consumed by the subsequent characters. 0:14:10.828,0:14:12.497 It's really cool when you see it happen. 0:14:12.497,0:14:14.730 It sort of looks like an artifact, 0:14:14.730,0:14:19.134 but then somehow I think it's kind of cool. 0:14:19.134,0:14:21.600 >> What happens if you want to say sigh[br]and lent in the same... 0:14:21.600,0:14:25.368 DREW: Um, so you could force a space[br]between them. 0:14:25.368,0:14:26.736 I think if I just said... 0:14:26.736,0:14:29.259 I think it's S-P will do a space. 0:14:29.259,0:14:30.769 Generally a space will be inserted. 0:14:30.769,0:14:31.894 But if I said... 0:14:31.894,0:14:36.201 Sigh space...[br]I've got to think about this... 0:14:36.201,0:14:38.870 Lent, I can get the two words. 0:14:38.870,0:14:42.331 But generally it's like --[br]you would look at 0:14:42.331,0:14:45.622 when the individual syllables[br]can form individual words, 0:14:45.622,0:14:47.568 you would look at the English language, and think -- 0:14:47.568,0:14:50.669 can I form a sentence[br]where the word sigh is followed by the word lent? 0:14:50.669,0:14:53.767 And if you can't think of a sentence[br]that doesn't sound like nonsense, 0:14:53.767,0:14:59.699 then it's safe to add that to the dictionary[br]as a definition for the word silent. 0:14:59.699,0:15:01.097 >> Is it the same for deletion? 0:15:01.097,0:15:02.634 Does it delete word by word? 0:15:02.634,0:15:04.129 DREW: Yeah, good question. 0:15:04.129,0:15:05.929 So the asterisk key,[br]the one in the middle, 0:15:05.929,0:15:07.665 is like the backspace. 0:15:07.665,0:15:09.096 It's kind of like undo in Vim, actually. 0:15:09.096,0:15:12.368 So if I press it once, it deletes[br]basically the last stroke. 0:15:12.368,0:15:15.631 Press it again and again, 0:15:15.631,0:15:16.400 and watch this. 0:15:16.400,0:15:20.392 We get back to sigh. 0:15:20.392,0:15:22.282 So that's -- you know,[br]there's quite a lot of clever stuff 0:15:22.282,0:15:25.933 going on inside of Plover,[br]to track all of that stuff. 0:15:25.933,0:15:27.403 So anyway, I've been talking long enough. 0:15:27.403,0:15:28.734 Does anyone want to try this out? 0:15:28.734,0:15:30.733 I'll put it down here,[br]and you don't have to all do it 0:15:30.733,0:15:32.096 on the big screen. 0:15:32.096,0:15:35.967 But I've been so excited since I learned this. 0:15:35.967,0:15:38.198 I sort of feel like there was a stage with Vim 0:15:38.198,0:15:40.528 where I knew enough about what Vim was capable of, 0:15:40.528,0:15:41.829 but didn't know how to operate it. 0:15:41.829,0:15:45.494 And I sort of felt unsatisfied [br]with the text editors I was using. 0:15:45.494,0:15:47.897 I sort of feel like that about steno at the moment. 0:15:47.897,0:15:50.368 It's like --[br]it's made me really unhappy with qwerty, 0:15:50.368,0:15:52.835 but I can't use it yet. 0:15:52.835,0:15:55.646 So it's something I'm working on.