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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Find bindings for all modes
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:09:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a94fince.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQT99J_wY2r9hvEiDr4WjYi-7vTvdvOUoRmno1JkC4x-Tw@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Mastro on Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:18:48 -0700)

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>>    I'd like to use C-j as a prefix key.
>>    Note: I have limited mobility in my hands and always have the
>>    control key to the left of my "A" key.
>
> I wanted to do something similar in order to have a general-purpose
> prefix key on the right hand side of the keyboard. (I strongly prefer to
> use opposite hands for the modifier(s) and they keys themselves. So
> `C-c` or `C-x r` are fine, but I'm not a big fan of e.g. `C-x o`.

I'm not sure I understand John Mastro & Tim Johnson are trying to
achieve here.  However, there are a few keys that are much less trouble
to use:

* C-' C-# C-. C-, C-; C-=.
Undefined by default.

* C--, C-1, C-2,..., M--, M-1, M-2, ....
These are duplicates.  If you like you can use one set of them and
redefine the other.  Notice that C-4 & M-4 are almost useless since
in most circumstances they do the same thing as C-u.

* M-o.
This isn't very useful unless you use enriched-mode.

* M-s.
The existing M-s prefix key doesn't have very much in it.  Eventually the
Emacs maintainers will put more in no-doubt, but until then you can put
a few things in it.

* C-c X.
This is left as the default user-defined prefix key.

Some of these don't work in terminals, I don't know which ones because I
don't use terminals.

BR,
Robert Thorpe





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28 17:58 Find bindings for all modes Tim Johnson
2014-10-28 21:53 ` John Mastro
2014-10-28 22:00   ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-28 22:18     ` John Mastro
2014-10-29  0:31       ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-29  3:09       ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2014-10-29 18:19         ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-29 23:05         ` John Mastro
2014-10-30  1:46           ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-30  2:04           ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-30 18:25             ` Tim Johnson
2014-11-01 21:00               ` Robert Thorpe
2014-11-04  0:04                 ` Tim Johnson

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