From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evans Winner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:14:02 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86k5fskzd1.fsf@timbral.net> References: <03a7c17e-9187-422b-be26-092e15d552be@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215805346 9431 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 19:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:42:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 21:43:13 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 1KHOWM-0008F4-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:43:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHOVT-0007ts-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:42:15 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tHL7Pw00KvzSeEbptdOqCQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hrPCzUtewDbic5Mk5vftBwUmOe8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160101 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:55445 Archived-At: don provan writes: Certainly on a standard keyboard, making caps lock control is just silly [...] I am not clear still about why this is. I find it much harder and more disturbing of my hand position to have to scrunch my pinky way under and left to hit normal ctrl than to simply move it an inch left. I mean, I am, as I mentioned in a previous post, not an expert touch-typist, so maybe there are factors I am not ware of, but I find it much easier to use Emacs (and everything else, actually) with ctrl and caps-lock swapped. I have two computers at home (Gnu/Linux and NetBSD) mapped that way, and two computers at work (Windows) and much prefer it so far (ca. 6 months). I also have to constantly type on other people's PCs that are not mapped that way. My feeling for it is that I have had a pretty good opportunity to use both, compare directly and not be able to totally base my opinion on habit, since I have to switch back and forth a lot. So, for what that's worth, I have to say that it is (or at any rate feels) like I am able to work faster and more smoothly with the swapped keys. But then, I do not have the kind of keyboard Mr. Lee suggests, and I do like in principle the idea of simply rocking the hand and palming the keys. So I would like to give it a try.