Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings

[Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>]

Nix <nix-razor-pit@esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 26 May 2012, Dan Espen uttered the following:
>> You'll need to create another write up that explains why
>> we can't live without CAPS LOCK.
>
> I used to think caps-lock was useless too, until I learned a bit of
> formal touch typing, when it all came clear.
>
> The caps-lock key is intended to reduce chording when typing multiple
> capitalized letters at once (which used to be common in headings, and is
> now common in e.g. macro names in C). Chording two keys with one hand is
> very unpleasant and a significant cause of RSI, so formal touch typing
> teaches that you should always use the opposite hand to the hit chording
> keys, e.g. right shift and left F, but left shift and right L. (This is
> why there are two shift, ctrl keys, and so on, on opposite sides of
> keyboards). However, when typing runs of capital letters this requires
> frequent flipping of the shift-holding hand from side to side, or
> violation of this rule.
>
> Thus, one hits caps lock *once*, types the run of capitalized keys, then
> hits it again, thus avoiding both single-hand chording and an annoying
> constant flip of the chording hand.

Are you serious? Just compare how many times you need to hit CAPS LOCK
and how many times you need to hit Control with Emacs.

Moreover, there is upcase-region bound to C-x C-u.