From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thad Floryan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:24:16 -0700 Organization: ThadLABS Message-ID: <4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> References: <5ee2582c-026b-4ab3-b5a7-c2d3e66ff511@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337984716 16999 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 22:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:25:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 00:25:15 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 1SY2wb-0003cq-3W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 00:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY2wa-00012X-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 18:25:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 34 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Ffcll78vPb9FFcAvz2XZlA"; logging-data="17766"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19MPFQiocJejUJwWwmva7NnlFb50XwYduA=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: <4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:E7HXyvpiQadG/GNzWFgUztXRZ/Q= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192572 comp.emacs:102470 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:84978 Archived-At: 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: Program: For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]: xkeycaps: or use the user preferences [depending on the distro or desktop] to make the [Caps Lock] be another [Ctrl].