Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings

[Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>]

On 5/25/2012 10:37 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
> xah wrote:
>> my first voice blog.
>> 〈The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs's Key System〉
>> http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_keybinding_redesign.html
> 
> Xah wrote:
>  «Here's a new thing i've learned. Normally, it's a good advice to
> press combination keys using both hands. That is, suppose you want to
> press【Ctrl+x】. You should use right hand to hold right Ctrl and left
> hand to press x. But if you are a touch typer and leave your hand in
> standard position, so you press the x with 4th finger. That'll cause a
> major problem if done often.»
> [...]

Which is why sane people remap [Caps Lock] to be another [Ctrl].

For Emacs on Windows [Win2K-SP4, WinXP-SP3, Vista-SP2, Win7-SP1]:

   Details:

       <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578.aspx>

   Program:

       <http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Ctrl2Cap.zip>

For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an
input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]:

    xkeycaps: <http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/>

or use the user preferences [depending on the distro or desktop] to
make the [Caps Lock] be another [Ctrl].