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: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:47:08 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20150604154708.GF1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20150604001736.GA1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20150604005244.GB1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <6EEFD663-A010-4026-B396-34F97552159C@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433432861 24644 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2015 15:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 15:47:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 17:47:26 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 1Z0XMa-0006no-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0XMa-0001iO-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0XMP-0001iI-GX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0XMM-0007lL-5G for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:50983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0XML-0007jv-Sk for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 62B476314952; Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:47:08 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6EEFD663-A010-4026-B396-34F97552159C@gmail.com> 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:104753 Archived-At: * William Hatch [150604 07:36]: > Another option you might consider if you have pain is using one of > the modes that let you use 1 key at a time, such as evil (which I > use), god-mode, etc. Then you can completely avoid holding > modifiers, if that contributes to your pain. Also you can try > sticky keys on your OS for similar effects. I don't know if it > helps you, but it helps a lot of people. That is definitely something I am going to look into as an alternative. In fact, my other editor (usually lauched from Midnight Commander) is vim. thanks -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com