Re: Arrowless navigation

["Vyacheslav Akhmechet" <coffeemug@gmail.com>]

I just switched my CapsLock and control keys and I'm running into
problems. It's actually ok within emacs but I can't edit everything
there all the time and having to use CapsLock with c and v to
copy/paste in other pieces of software is a big pain. In general it
seems like default emacs bindings / conventions aren't very ergonomic.
Makes me consider trying VI :)

On 9/21/06, David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:17:44 -0400 Vyacheslav Akhmechet wrote:
>
> > I recently disabled the arrow keys to avoid temptation. However, I
> > find that default navigation is fairly uncomfortable: C-f, C-b, C-n,
> > C-p. The keys are far away from each other and navigating like that is
> > really stressful on the fingers. Why is this done this way?
> >
> > Do most people redefine these bindings? Initially I wanted to redefine
> > to C-j, C-k, C-l and C-i (because they resemble the arrow keys and are
> > close to the home row) but some of the most common emacs bindings are
> > there. So how do the pros navigate?
>
> I use C-f and friends.  I'm so used to it...
>
> But if you like to have some other cursor movement commands
> w/o overwriting important emacs key bindings you can either
> use these windows keys as a modifier or do some key mapping
> magics with xmodmap.
>
> A quite common setup is to use CapsLock as the control key and
> the left control key as another modifier.
>
> David
>
>
>
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