From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tyler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:34:08 -0300 Message-ID: <87mykojeb3.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> References: <03a7c17e-9187-422b-be26-092e15d552be@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <86k5fskzd1.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215812104 30944 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 21:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:35:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 23:35:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KHQHN-0004SU-Ud for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHQGV-0005rX-VS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHQGE-0005pn-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHQGC-0005nX-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39418 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHQGB-0005nP-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34028 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHQGB-0002t1-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KHQG6-000077-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:34:30 +0000 Original-Received: from hlfxns01bbf-142068201214.dhcp-dynamic.ns.aliant.net ([142.68.201.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:34:30 +0000 Original-Received: from tyler.smith by hlfxns01bbf-142068201214.dhcp-dynamic.ns.aliant.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:34:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hlfxns01bbf-142068201214.dhcp-dynamic.ns.aliant.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5IgDI6GdCp5x14FEU1zx0iWusqg= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55449 Archived-At: Evans Winner writes: > don provan writes: > > Certainly on a standard keyboard, making caps lock > control is just silly [...] > > I am not clear still about why this is. I find it much > harder and more disturbing of my hand position to have to > scrunch my pinky way under and left to hit normal ctrl than > to simply move it an inch left. I find the standard positions of the control keys a bit awkward, but for me, the alt key is definitely worse. I can't hit it with my palm or whatever it was Xah suggested, nor is it really accessible with my thumbs. I have little hands, so I may be unusual in this respect. Anyways, I've remapped capslock to alt, and it has made a lot of the emacs key-chords available from 'home position'. I know I'm supposed to use the modifier keys with the opposite hand as the modified key, but when I'm hopping through text it's a lot easier to rest my left pinky on caps lock and tap b, f or d with other fingers on my left hand, than to contort my right hand to access the other alt key. I've had some serious repetitive strain issues in other venues (former musician), but I've never yet suffered from the 'emacs pinky' with this setup. My two cents. Interesting thread! Tyler -- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. --Wernher von Braun