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From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
Cc: EMACS List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: M-! -- new or other binding ??
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:18:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzvipv4j.fsf@debby.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176328029.3064.146.camel@CASE> (William Case's message of "Wed\, 11 Apr 2007 17\:47\:09 -0400")

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> I find myself using the shell-command (M-!) a lot lately and the reach
> for all the keys (on my keyboard Alt+Shft+!) is difficult.  Have I
> missed a keyboarding trick using one hand or can someone suggest another

I use the left thumb on ALT the little finger of the same hand on 1
and the little finger on the right hand on SHIFT.  (In this way your
hand remains in touch type position.)

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-11 21:47 M-! -- new or other binding ?? William Case
2007-04-11 21:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-11 22:05   ` William Case
2007-04-11 22:11     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12  8:15 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-04-14 20:18 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1964.1176328428.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-29 23:01 ` Bill White
2007-04-30  6:25   ` Maciej Katafiasz

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