From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1274aacf-a8bb-44df-95fa-4dc952d77e08@b5g2000pbm.googlegroups.com> References: <5ee2582c-026b-4ab3-b5a7-c2d3e66ff511@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com><4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com><4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> <87k3ztzlar.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338484219 31087 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2012 17:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 17:10:19 +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 May 31 19:10:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8t2-0006eF-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 19:10:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8t2-0001sI-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 13:10:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b5g2000pbm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.74.133.115 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1338484051 18667 127.0.0.1 (31 May 2012 17:07:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 17:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b5g2000pbm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.74.133.115; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192658 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85064 Archived-At: On May 31, 6:37=A0pm, "David Robinow" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+davidrobinow=3Dwoh.rr....@gnu.org [mailto:= help- > > gnu-emacs-bounces+davidrobinow=3Dwoh.rr....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Nix > > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:27 PM > > To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org > > Thus, one hits caps lock *once*, types the run of capitalized keys, the= n > > hits it again, thus avoiding both single-hand chording and an annoying > > constant flip of the chording hand. > > =A0I disable caps-lock every chance I get. On the rare occasion that I de= cide > to type in all caps, I find that M-b M-u does the job. > =A0If I used all caps more than once or twice a year, I might feel > differently. Nix mentioned two cases (1) headings in normal text (2) macros in C. It would be surprising if anyone doing either of these needed capslock with a frequency of "once or twice a year" [I set my capslock to behave as a second ctrl. So I end up using chording and flipping and sometimes M-u. But I realize this may not be the kindest choice for a hand]