From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change C-x prefix to C-k in a clean way? Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <9f26e1db-d03a-47f8-a0ad-66d42d504df1@33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> 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 1236848726 2815 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2009 09:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:05:26 +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 Mar 12 10:06:42 2009 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 1Lhgqv-0001qv-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:05:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LhgpY-0007Nc-D4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:03:56 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o2g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236807091 2187 127.0.0.1 (11 Mar 2009 21:31:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o2g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; 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/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167519 comp.emacs:98001 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:02:03 -0400 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:62843 Archived-At: On Mar 11, 8:36=C2=A0am, rustom wrote: > On Mar 7, 8:27=C2=A0am, Xah Lee wrote: > > > is there a way to remap all the C-x key to another, say C-k? > > > I've been using this > > (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x) > > for over 2 years (on dvorak. Dvorak t is qwerty k.) > > Just curious Xah -- Do you use Dvorak primarily for speed or for RSI > related problems? i learned dvorak in 1992 or 1993. More or less due to my nerdiness towards better design. I don't have typing speed problem nor RSI in anyway. In 1991 or 1992 i was employed as a secretary or data entry clerk, typing qwerty about 75 wpm (test result from hiring agency). I took a month to learn dvorak during a job break, but by happenstance have never worked as a secretary since. My typing speed never improved much. In fact, slower, maybe 60wpm for the next 5 or so years, because i didn't have a need to type intensively as a job as before. The significantly noticeable thing is the comfort. I didn't realize it until in late 1990s, when sometimes i had to go back to qwerty as a sys admin, and the first thing to note is that the fingers jump wildly. first use of emacs is maybe 1998, and in a month or so become daily user. (so, my emacs experience is all dvorak) First 6 years of emacs using is exclusively terminal based. In fact resisted installing X11 when a colleague seems to want it to run emacs. Didn't start to use GUI emacs till 2005. did pick up some qwerty touch typing again somewhat again in 2002. My qwerty touch typing speed is probably less than 30wpm, and maybe up to 50wpm if given 1 hour daily practice over a week. Current dvorak speed, according to websites, is anywhere from 80 to over 100wpm. i read extensively on dvorak. In the early 1990s, it'ss books in library (notably Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing). Since late 1990s, online info. I don't think there is a notable site about dvorak, keyboard, keyboard layouts, RSI, alternative input devices, that i have not read. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84