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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!

  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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