From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <551c1987-57cc-410e-a81a-51ee96f3387d@g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <87ljxoffs6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> <2868c8db-ff02-4d67-9e80-4cf323086ca3@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222159242 32611 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2008 08:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 10:41:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ki3Sj-0008Fi-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:41:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ki3Rh-0007rb-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 60 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222157792 19682 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2008 08:16:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162596 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57937 Archived-At: On Sep 22, 11:25 am, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On 2008-09-22,XahLee wrote: > > > Hi Erik Fragga, > > > On the subject of RSI, perhaps you should use Dvorak, and you'd be > > interested in my article here: > > I don't have any RSI problems due to my use of a keyboard. If you > read my post, I said clearly that mouse usage is what causes me pain. > We are talking (I thought) about text interfaces versus GUIs. > > I will add that your proposed key bindings for Emacs, however, would > indeed cause me problems. Hitting the ALT key requires contortions > not required when using the CTRL key (which I've remapped to be on the > home row of a standard qwerty keyboard). For that matter, I prefer > "ESC key" to "ALT+key". I also prefer C-n and C-p to arrows as I > don't have to move my hands from the home row (I use several different > keyboards daily and the arrow keys differ in placement from keyboard > to keyboard, annoyingly). > > And I am impressed at how my name changed... if you don't know much about keyboard and ergonomics, i recommend reading the few articles i've written on the issue. A partial list are these: =E2=80=A2 You Should Not Swap Cap Lock With Control http://xahlee.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html =E2=80=A2 How To Avoid The Emacs Pinky Problem (advice on using Control key with emacs) http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html =E2=80=A2 A Review of Microsoft Natural Keyboards http://xahlee.org/emacs/ms_keyboard/ms_natural_keyboard.html =E2=80=A2 Computer Keyboards Gallery (photos and commentaries on keyboards design, efficiency, ergonomics) http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboards.html =E2=80=A2 Keyboard Hardware Design Flaws http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_problems.html =E2=80=A2 The Confusion of Emacs's Keystroke Representation (explains the notations =E2=80=9CC-q C-j=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9C\n=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9C^J=E2= =80=9D, =E2=80=9CRET=E2=80=9D etc.) http://xahlee.org/emacs/keystroke_rep.html =E2=80=A2 Mac OS X Keybinding and Unicode Tips (system-wide keybinding for = OS X) http://xahlee.org/emacs/osx_keybinding.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84