From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Control-C conundrum Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 16:52:44 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20150604005244.GB1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20150604001736.GA1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433379197 7865 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2015 00:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 00:53:17 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 02:53:06 2015 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 1Z0JP3-00041m-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:53:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0JP2-00051V-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0JOs-00051L-R8 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0JOo-0004JX-Rh for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:49335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0JOo-0004JG-JT for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id F2DF7630EF21; Wed, 3 Jun 2015 16:52:44 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 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:104741 Archived-At: * John Mastro [150603 16:50]: > Tim Johnson wrote: > > Here's my problem : > > I have severe arthritis in my thumbs. When I use fingers in my left > > hand, bending down to reach the "c" key, I will shortly experience a > > lot of pain in the base of my left thumb. > > > > I can easily switch to C-l or C-o as the first keystroke for all > > prefix definitions just by redefining 'tj-leader. > > > > I'm aware that major or minor modes may use C-l or C-o, but I don't > > have any of the thumb pain when I use either C-l or C-o. > > I say go for it (change `tj-leader' to `C-l' or `C-o'). If there are > important conflicts, you'll find them and figure out an alternative. > > > One work-around that I have been considering is add-hook'ing an > > alternative binding (say, in place of C-o => C-o C-o) if I use a > > mode that remaps C-o. > > Sounds reasonable to me. Since you're talking about rebinding a single > key, I don't think there will be an unmanageable number of conflicts. > > I can't think of any minor modes that rebind `C-l' at the moment, > although I'm sure they exist. Thanks, John. cheers -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com