From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:59:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OvidnRCIjIg42dfanZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4008.1195878924.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Vincent C wrote:
> Is it possible to have dvorak keybindings except when hitting a ctrl
> or meta key combinations? (ie: switch back to QWERTY in that case)
>
>
Bad idea (imho). See Xah Lee's sensible suggestions here (and at associated
links):
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html
I think that if the developers could be persuaded to adopt even a small part
of Xah's suggestions, that would probably go farther to making emacs
palatable to more users than even the imminent conversion to Unicode in
Emacs 23.
At a minimum, find some way to reassign the modifier keys so that they are
laid out (in a direction away from the space bar) in the order Ctrl, Alt,
Windows, AppKey. The latter two can be used for super and hyper modifiers.
I am using the Dvorak layout now and even with my non-Space-Cadet keyboard I
can touch type Alt, Wind, Ctrl with middle, ring, and little fingers
respectively. If/when I upgrade from w98 to 2000, I will immediately convert
to many of Xah's keybindings (all of them if the developers adopt them). The
most important, after the modifier keys, are the cursor movement keychords
with Ctrl:(h,t,n,c for left, down, right, up, with the Dvorak layout).
Ed.
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-11-26 3:59 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2007-11-30 16:53 ` Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed Stefan Monnier
2007-12-25 16:43 ` B. T. Raven
2007-12-25 17:01 ` Andreas Eder
2007-12-26 1:31 ` B. T. Raven
2007-12-26 1:52 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2007-12-26 10:08 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5395.1198663704.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-27 17:45 ` B. T. Raven
2007-12-28 0:27 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5444.1198801648.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-28 3:05 ` B. T. Raven
2007-12-28 10:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-24 4:35 Vincent C
2007-11-24 7:24 ` Oleg Katsitadze
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