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: line-move-visual Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:30:54 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hbl3u00h.fsf@unm.edu> References: <089883ee-0a63-4cb4-a0ec-d2fe4e71cc03@y18g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87wruco5yq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87wrubfd8p.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <848w6ndwn0.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> <87d3vx5cku.fsf@gmail.com> <87bpbcrdk5.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <4C17FE36.30102@thadlabs.com> <4C180D6B.9020508@thadlabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947370 13662 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:16:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:16:10 +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 Dec 10 03:16:07 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQsWk-0007zb-OA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:16:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsL0-0005HJ-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:03:58 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed.CARNet.hr!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4xmhsRr5Aeb6D0t2Thq8sQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fIdRK/qFJQ5pWZhMOyqiVeSkP54= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178988 comp.emacs:100063 comp.lang.lisp:289233 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:47 -0500 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:77178 Archived-At: ,------ Thad Floryan wrote ------ | Your opinion which neither I nor 100,000s of others | share -- you stand alone. Not alone. I've read similar advice in the past. What I would like to try is a situation in which holding down SPC and then hitting something else causes SPC to act like Control. But if nothing is hit along with SPC then it sends a Space character on key-up. Obviously this would have the drawback that one could not get repeated spaces by holding down the space key, but I would like to at least experiment with it. I don't know if it is possible to map the keys that way, though. I've looked into it a bit, but not figured it out. Failing that, I do use Caps-Lock and Control swapped and have for some time. It doesn't seem terribly harmful to me. The idea of palming the Control key is interesting, but it seems as if it would require tiny hands to really do comfortably. For me, I do have to move my hands awkwardly from the home row to do that, whereas I don't really have to move from the home row to hit the key to the left of `A'. Maybe it was all the piano playing back in the day, but my fifth finger moves the slight bit sideways pretty fluently.