Re: one key-press to comment out lines of code?

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:

> For me, the position of the control key next to the A
> key is far more convenient than the default in the
> lower-left-hand corner.

Yes, I agree it is better, only I have so much stuff in
my muscle-memory:

- the (left) control key
- the caps-lock key once or twice (buffer-menu:
  files-only/all-buffers)
- <M-caps> for the buffer-local caps-mode
- <shift-caps> for dired-jump (right shift, though both
  works)

So if I were to switch to the better solution now,
there would be chaos for a while :)

> Besides, my fingers are trained for that position.
> Every time I use an un-modified keyboard, it drives
> me buggy.  Plus, that lower-left corner is far enough
> from the home row that I have to take my left hand
> off the keys.

Aha! In that case it really sucks. No, I can hit the
left control with the left-hand little finger while the
left-hand index finger remains at F.

> Ooh, I *liked* the old Sun keyboards.  It's been a
> long time since I used a Sun, but I think the diamond
> key was a sort of "command" key, like on an Apple
> Mac.  (When I was using a Sun, it was a Sun Three,
> with dual 68020 CPUs running at 20MHz.  And we
> thought it was great!  Ah, how times have
> changed. :-) ) But yes, I can understand your
> frustration with the keyboard layout.  The only thing
> I can suggest is re-mapping the keys to be what you
> want, where you want.  As much a physically possible,
> at any rate.

Yeah, I've done that a lot, and I'm not actually
frustrated about keys because they can be quite
pleasant to fiddle around with, but it sure took its
fair amount of time.

I never thought of the hyper/super modifier, instead I
setup C-o to be a new prefix key (much like M-x). I
actually think C-o is better than M-x (because it
involves both hands) but both are good. Best would be M
and then either J, K, L or ; but (you guessed it) I
have those since long for other things...

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