From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Memnon Anon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <699da692-853f-4d21-9d96-fb230ddac6ad@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215823246 24845 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2008 00:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:40:46 +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 Jul 12 02:41:33 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 1KHTB6-0005XK-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHTAF-0008Qr-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.178.231.200 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215822516 32013 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2008 00:28:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.178.231.200; posting-account=OEfGLAoAAABFkVsXQs45k2Sa4YfQxyZe User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008062910 Iceweasel/3.0 (Debian-3.0~rc2-2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160109 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:55452 Archived-At: On 9 Jul., 17:22, SomeDeveloper wrote: > Hello, > > Just getting started withEmacs. Would like to get advice on how to > train finger movement when learning/usingEmacs. > Hi! I am also quite new to emacs. The first thing I did was mapping caps lock to control. I tend to press keys quite heavily and using the usual caps lock postitions is quite painfull after an hour or so. Another tip I read was to curl your pinkie to press control. I do this quite a lot for my right hand, because I really try to use both hands. But my joint still hurts pretty soon actually. I still recommend curling your right pinkie. It is just a matter of habbit. Thanks for your question! You reminded me of an idea I once had and I am again investigating if it works somehow. Using my Thinkpad X30, the mouse buttons are right under my thumbs. (Alt/Meta really is not!) So I try to find a way to map mouse 1 or 3 (pressed) + any key to Control + any key and mouse 2 (pressed) + any key to Alt/Meta + any key. This would be really convenient, at least on my board. Still found no really solution to do this. Any suggestions are really appreciated!