From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:37:30 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217508110 4798 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 12:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:41:50 +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 Jul 31 14:42:40 2008 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 1KOXU5-0001JD-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOXTB-0004U8-Ew for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:41:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1217507843 21817 166.84.1.5 (31 Jul 2008 12:37:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:37:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o4og+FaWgzxjd2rb0MPbjaT7JRE= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160735 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:56083 Archived-At: Juan Manuel Menéndez Bellón writes: > --- El jue, 31/7/08, Juanma Barranquero escribió: > >> > I find C-x C-c really easy. >> >> I don't find any control key combo "easy". >> Perhaps I would find them a bit easier if I did the usual Caps Lock / >> Ctrl switch, but I suspect it wouldn't be much of a difference. > > Of course, I'm not sure how it will feel for you, but I find it to be a > very big difference. That switch moves the Ctrl key from a position that > is unreachable with normal typing position and a fairly normal keyboard, > to a position in the home row. You pass from needing to shift your whole > arm to needing a minor pinky shift. > > I use Control more often than Caps Lock (by orders of magnitude, I'm > sure), so I rather have the former in the home row. > > Best regards, > -- > Juanma I must agree wholeheartedly with Juanma. Until I remap the caps-lock to control, I'm basically useless in Emacs. Once the change is made, however, I can touch type and move around in emacs without even really thinking about it. It becomes much easier! - Chris -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================