From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Find bindings for all modes
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:19:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029181905.GG7374@mail.akwebsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a94fince.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
* Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> [141029 07:11]:
> John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> >> I'd like to use C-j as a prefix key.
> >> Note: I have limited mobility in my hands and always have the
> >> control key to the left of my "A" key.
> >
> > I wanted to do something similar in order to have a general-purpose
> > prefix key on the right hand side of the keyboard. (I strongly prefer to
> > use opposite hands for the modifier(s) and they keys themselves. So
> > `C-c` or `C-x r` are fine, but I'm not a big fan of e.g. `C-x o`.
>
> I'm not sure I understand John Mastro & Tim Johnson are trying to
> achieve here. However, there are a few keys that are much less trouble
> to use:
Robert, I'll note several things first.
1)I am new to terminal mode (need it for ssh connections to my main
machine from netbooks)
2)I have a limited knowledge of emacs.
3)I do not work in a team environment
4)I have limited movement in my hands and painful arthritis in my
thumbs, thus I seek quick sequences and short reaches.
Functionally, my hands are semi-crippled.
5)I use a happy hacker keyboard on my mac, where the control key is
in the same place as the caps lock on convention keyboards and I
set up all my other computers with caps lock and control swapped.
> * C-' C-# C-. C-, C-; C-=.
> Undefined by default.
These are not available in console mode in my OS and
configuration in terminal mode.
I used to use C-; as a prefix in gui mode and loved it!
> * C--, C-1, C-2,..., M--, M-1, M-2, ....
> These are duplicates. If you like you can use one set of them and
> redefine the other. Notice that C-4 & M-4 are almost useless since
> in most circumstances they do the same thing as C-u.
C-digit sequences are not available in my configuration on this OS
and terminal mode.
> * M-o.
Yeah, I could use C-[ o
> This isn't very useful unless you use enriched-mode.
>
> * M-s.
Yeah, I could use C-[ s
> The existing M-s prefix key doesn't have very much in it. Eventually the
> Emacs maintainers will put more in no-doubt, but until then you can put
> a few things in it.
> * C-c X.
> This is left as the default user-defined prefix key.
I'm glad you brought that up. From
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html
I didn't know that C-c x was available in that fashion. Thanks, a
do you have URLs or Help for further docs on this?
> Some of these don't work in terminals, I don't know which ones because I
> don't use terminals.
See above ...
I will (tentatively) be using C-j, C-l, C-o, C-s, C-t, C-u and C-]
as prefix keys for keymaps. The original bindings (I hope) have
been resolved. I realize that this is highly unorthodox but see
note 4) and note 3) ...
Because I'm using keymaps and prefix keys - alterations should be
easy. Along with C-c x, I note the C-x j and C-x C-j are undefined
in my setup. But, again, see note 4) ...
If my hands were in the same shape as the rest of me, it would be
a whole different story.
Thanks for the tip on C-c x.
cheers
--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-28 17:58 Find bindings for all modes Tim Johnson
2014-10-28 21:53 ` John Mastro
2014-10-28 22:00 ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-28 22:18 ` John Mastro
2014-10-29 0:31 ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-29 3:09 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-29 18:19 ` Tim Johnson [this message]
2014-10-29 23:05 ` John Mastro
2014-10-30 1:46 ` Tim Johnson
2014-10-30 2:04 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-30 18:25 ` Tim Johnson
2014-11-01 21:00 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-11-04 0:04 ` Tim Johnson
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