From: James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com>
To: "Loic J. Duros" <lduros@member.fsf.org>
Cc: David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 09:05:29 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1301050900260.1958@james-System-Product-Name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v88h276.fsf@debian.lduros.net>
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Loic J. Duros wrote:
> dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
>
>> Sun (er, oracle) makes that type of keyboard, but
>> also makes one with the control key immediately left
>> of the "A" key, where it was on the original
>> teletype-like machine (name escapes me now, but it
>> ended in "33").
>
> What's the difference with moving the ctrl key to the caps lock key on a
> standard keyboard?
> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey
It's not a big difference... just preference - less far to stretch the fingers.
Capslock always used to be the location of the ctrl key on early keyboards
which happened to suit those that use the wordstar keybindings (which are the
most efficient in professional writers opinion... and mine). A lot of emacs
users like them swapped for emacs bindings. Although i've got used to using the
right ctrl key for wordstar mode.
james
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-05 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 3:07 Emacs keyboard B. T. Raven
2012-12-13 8:27 ` William Gardella
2012-12-13 16:47 ` J G Miller
2012-12-13 18:08 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15263.1355422115.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-14 6:38 ` B. T. Raven
2013-01-05 0:33 ` David Combs
2013-01-05 1:02 ` Loic J. Duros
2013-01-05 9:05 ` James Freer [this message]
2013-01-06 14:43 ` ken
2013-01-06 21:28 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.16820.1357507710.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-06 22:02 ` Dan Espen
2013-01-06 22:25 ` James Freer
2013-01-06 3:51 ` Filipp Gunbin
2013-01-06 15:00 ` J. David Boyd
2013-01-24 22:53 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.16729.1357356945.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-24 21:51 ` David Combs
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