From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Control-C conundrum Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 23:12:17 +0100 Message-ID: <878ubz9l8e.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <20150604154708.GF1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433455984 31369 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2015 22:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim Johnson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 00:12:52 2015 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 1Z0dNS-0000T4-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:12:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0dNR-0004lv-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0dNA-0004he-PC for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0dN7-0005FD-5m for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.35]:54448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0dN6-0005Ew-Ut for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC6F69879D for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 27529 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2015 22:12:18 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.103.122]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 4 Jun 2015 22:12:18 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20150604154708.GF1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> (message from Tim Johnson on Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:47:08 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.35 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:104757 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: > * William Hatch [150604 07:36]: >> Another option you might consider if you have pain is using one of >> the modes that let you use 1 key at a time, such as evil (which I >> use), god-mode, etc. Then you can completely avoid holding >> modifiers, if that contributes to your pain. Also you can try >> sticky keys on your OS for similar effects. I don't know if it >> helps you, but it helps a lot of people. > > That is definitely something I am going to look into as an > alternative. In fact, my other editor (usually lauched from > Midnight Commander) is vim. Do you use GUI Emacs? If so, then another possibility is to map the keys that can't be mapped in the terminal. For example, C-; C-' C-# etc. Like other have said, it often easier to use the modifier key at the other side of the keyboard. Also, on desktop keyboards it's often easy to hold down ctrl with the knuckle of the smallest finger. BR, Robert Thorpe