From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217522447 25207 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 16:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 18:41:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KObDW-0000IW-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:41:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KObCb-00013W-VS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217519683 2694 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2008 15:54:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160748 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56093 Archived-At: On Jul 31, 7:35 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > Xahwrote: > > In touch typing, modifiers comes in pairs, such as Shift. The accepted > > ergonomic way to press them is using one hand to press the modifier > > and the other to press the other key. > > I would rather from an ergonomic view recommend "sticky keys/modifiers": > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers Btw, emacs package for sticky modifier is not necessary on the Mac. In the Mac, just go to your System Preference, click on the Universal Access (i.e. for the handicapped), and there you can setup sticky keys system wide. Mac has this before OSX too, since about early 1990s i think. (Also, you can swap any modifiers to any other in OSX. Just go to sys pref, keyboard & mouse, keyboard, modifier. For more detail, see How to Swap Modifier Keys on OS X http://xahlee.org/emacs/osx_swapping_modifier_keys.html ) On OSX, you can actually setup arbitrary commands to keys much like how you rebind keys in emacs. (However, they only work in Cocoa apps and not perfectly.). See How To Create Your Own Keybinding In Mac Os X http://xahlee.org/emacs/osx_keybinding.html ----------------- On Windows, i thought sticky key pref exist that are part of the Windows OS, but i haven't used Windows for many years now. Doesn't it exist as part of the OS, Lennart? Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84