From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help configuring a keyboard for Emacs Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:52:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r1moihhe.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12581"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:wECOT8gh20V6BoXSccSJhvg+XmM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 00:53:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzpx0-0003Bg-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:53:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51072 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzpwz-0005VL-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzpwd-0005VF-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzpwb-0004cx-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzpwZ-0002hf-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:52:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127230 Archived-At: > I use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard with quite a few of key remappings, > but most people use normal keyboards. Among those one common improvement > is to switch Control and Caps Lock. FWIW, I don't "switch" them, I just make caps-lock into a control key, since I just don't have any need for caps-lock anyway. [ Instead of remapping the lower-left key labeled "control" to caps-lock, I remap it to the "hyper" modifier which I dedicate to my window-manager bindings. ] Stefan