From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Learning emacs
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:37:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84wul1nr3j.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E2A5DE3.3000405@rogers.com
Paul O'Donnell <odonnellp@rogers.com> writes:
> I don't know which fingers to use to press [the Alt and Ctrl] keys.
For me, the key to the left of A is a ctrl key. I press that with
the fifth finger of the left hand.
For the alt key (it's known as meta in Emacs), I always use the left
thumb. Now that I think about it it turns out that I very rarely use
the right meta key.
Another thing I do (which reduces the need for meta and ctrl) is to
bind the function keys, in sequences of length two. So for example,
<f2> is the prefix for window-related things, so <f2> <f2> is
other-window, <f2> <f3> is delete-other-windows, <f2> <f4> is
delete-window. Here's how to do it:
(global-set-key (kbd "<f2> <f2>") 'other-window)
I'm sure you can modify this for the other keys.
You could think up a scheme to use then implement it. (I have
reserved <f9> for major modes, for example.)
--
Ambibibentists unite!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-19 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 8:12 Learning emacs Paul O'Donnell
2003-01-19 8:23 ` matt
2003-01-19 9:10 ` Paul O'Donnell
2003-01-19 19:46 ` A. L. Meyers
2003-01-19 21:10 ` Jonathon Isaac Swiderski
2003-01-20 15:46 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-19 9:09 ` Sören Vogel
2003-01-20 15:47 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-19 14:37 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-20 15:45 ` Lee Sau Dan
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