From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help configuring a keyboard for Emacs Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:45:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87r1moihhe.fsf@telefonica.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6564"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:M/YO2HSuVNYBBTcYEqHm+j/vuRI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 23:45:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzotp-0001aK-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:45:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33726 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzoto-00085M-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzotK-00084O-Jr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzotI-0005am-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzotF-0000wD-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:45:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127228 Archived-At: Juan Herrera writes: > Hello, I'm new to Emacs and I have trouble using its keybindings. I > have a regular keyboard and the Control key is far away from the rest > of the keys so it's difficult to press the keyboard shortcuts easily. > > How do you configure and press keys on your keyboard? Could you > explain which fingers (also left or right hand) you use to press > things like C-f, C-M-a, etc.? Do you use a standard keyboard or > something special? I use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard with quite a few of key remappings, but most people use normal keyboards. Among those one common improvement is to switch Control and Caps Lock.