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From: Bill White <billw@mchsi.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-! -- new or other binding ??
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:01:39 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bqh66azw.fsf@mchsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1964.1176328428.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> I find myself using the shell-command (M-!) a lot lately and the
> reach for all the keys (on my keyboard Alt+Shft+!) is difficult.
> Have I missed a keyboarding trick using one hand or can someone
> suggest another binding that wouldn't disturb the default key
> bindings but would still be an easier reach?

Have you looked into training your right hand to type those modifier
keys while your left types '1'?  M-^ (delete-indentation) is awkward
for my left hand so I took a day or so to train my right hand to type
the right <shift> and <alt> keys for it.

Cheers -

bw
--
"No, ma'am, we're musicians."

       reply	other threads:[~2007-04-29 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1964.1176328428.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-29 23:01 ` Bill White [this message]
2007-04-30  6:25   ` M-! -- new or other binding ?? Maciej Katafiasz
2007-04-11 21:47 William Case
2007-04-11 21:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-11 22:05   ` William Case
2007-04-11 22:11     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12  8:15 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-04-14 20:18 ` Dieter Wilhelm

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