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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Consult some suggestions for adjusting keyboard shortcuts to bind conflicts.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:06:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+Pvy=yuLneSxuES5eQ-9V1CktMMxbw-C3_1b9cy_Kvfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210412075911.GC17156@tuxteam.de>

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:59 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 02:19:07PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:16 AM Nikolay Kudryavtsev
> > <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, do you use M-s prefix commands? I seldom do, so I've rebound them
> > > to another prefix and use M-s for window switching instead.
> > >
> > > As for running Emacs with multiple input systems, my usual setup is
> > > setting up the OS to switch input language on Caps Lock and Ctrl+Shift,
> > > since neither of those keys mess with Emacs in any way and I seldom need
> > > Caps Lock.
> >
> > Caps Lock in itself will (de)activate the capital character input
> > mode, so, I think maybe Ctrl+Shift is more preferable.
>
> I'm another of those re-using Caps Lock for something different. In
> my case, I use double-shift (i.e. left-shift + right-shift) to switch
> language, and caps lock for Compose (I ♥ compose: very handy :)

What do you mean by saying "compose"?

> See, I'm an old guy: my fingers were trained on a mechanical typewriter,
> and there caps-lock kind of made sense; since "shift" had to push the
> whole type cluster around, it was hard to keep shift pushed with the
> pinky while typing a couple of letters.
>
> Since computer keyboards, I realised that I had no use for caps lock
> (except for pushing it accidentaly while entering passwords, that
> is ;-)
>
> Cheers
>  - t



-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07  1:39 Consult some suggestions for adjusting keyboard shortcuts to bind conflicts Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-08  7:06 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-04-10 13:40   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-11 20:16     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-04-12  6:19       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-12  7:59         ` tomas
2021-04-12  9:06           ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-04-12  9:22             ` tomas
2021-04-13 22:23     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-04-14  0:31       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-10 14:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-11  0:22   ` Hongyi Zhao

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