Changing control keys

Changing control keys

[H.]

Unforuntately,  left hand lacks the agility to press Ctrl and X without
diverging from the home position, and the lab keyboards at my
university lack a Ctrl key on the right.

Therefore, my two questions:
1. I assume it's possible to change individual commands to use
CAP-LOCKS instead of Ctrl, but could someone please remind me how this
is done?
2. Is there a way to universally change all commands that use one
control key to use another? (In this case, CTRL --> CAPS LOCK).

Thanks!

Re: Changing control keys

[HS]

Most people do that by changing OS settings, isn't that a solution for
you?


H. escreveu:

> Unforuntately,  left hand lacks the agility to press Ctrl and X without
> diverging from the home position, and the lab keyboards at my
> university lack a Ctrl key on the right.
>
> Therefore, my two questions:
> 1. I assume it's possible to change individual commands to use
> CAP-LOCKS instead of Ctrl, but could someone please remind me how this
> is done?
> 2. Is there a way to universally change all commands that use one
> control key to use another? (In this case, CTRL --> CAPS LOCK).
> 
> Thanks!

Re: Changing control keys

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

A very relevant OS setting is "sticky modifiers/keys":

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers



HS wrote:
> Most people do that by changing OS settings, isn't that a solution for
> you?
> 
> 
> H. escreveu:
> 
>> Unforuntately,  left hand lacks the agility to press Ctrl and X without
>> diverging from the home position, and the lab keyboards at my
>> university lack a Ctrl key on the right.
>>
>> Therefore, my two questions:
>> 1. I assume it's possible to change individual commands to use
>> CAP-LOCKS instead of Ctrl, but could someone please remind me how this
>> is done?
>> 2. Is there a way to universally change all commands that use one
>> control key to use another? (In this case, CTRL --> CAPS LOCK).
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
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Re: Changing control keys

[HS]

If you want to swap keys in your OS, check Item 1 here:
http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs
-HS

Lennart Borgman (gmail) escreveu:

> A very relevant OS setting is "sticky modifiers/keys":
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers
>
>
>
> HS wrote:
> > Most people do that by changing OS settings, isn't that a solution for
> > you?
> >
> >
> > H. escreveu:
> >
> >> Unforuntately,  left hand lacks the agility to press Ctrl and X without
> >> diverging from the home position, and the lab keyboards at my
> >> university lack a Ctrl key on the right.
> >>
> >> Therefore, my two questions:
> >> 1. I assume it's possible to change individual commands to use
> >> CAP-LOCKS instead of Ctrl, but could someone please remind me how this
> >> is done?
> >> 2. Is there a way to universally change all commands that use one
> >> control key to use another? (In this case, CTRL --> CAPS LOCK).
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > help-gnu-emacs mailing list
> > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
> >

Re: Changing control keys

[David Hansen]

On 18 Jan 2007 10:32:03 -0800 H. wrote:

> 1. I assume it's possible to change individual commands to use
> CAP-LOCKS instead of Ctrl, but could someone please remind me how this
> is done?

It's an example in the xmodmap man page.

David