From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Control-C conundrum Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:47:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87sia7n1a2.wl-lists@groll.co.za> References: <20150604001736.GA1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20150603222121607920564@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433418476 10099 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2015 11:47:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 11:47:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 13:47:50 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 1Z0Tck-00086U-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:47:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0Tcj-0008Dw-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0Tc4-0007ff-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0Tc1-0006vA-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([95.130.15.6]:54685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0Tc1-0006mO-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za.groll.co.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1FD6014E for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:47:17 +0200 (SAST) In-Reply-To: <20150603222121607920564@bob.proulx.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.4 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 95.130.15.6 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:104749 Archived-At: On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 22:47:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Perhaps you could say a few words about your keyboard and typing > environment? Are you using an ergo keyboard? No matter what keyboard you use, I've always thought that the idea is to always use BOTH the left and right 'modifier' keys. So, what I am saying is that should you want to type say 'C-p' then the left hand presses the left control key and the right hand presses the P key. For 'C-c' the right hand presses the right control key and the left hand presses the C key. The fingers of one hand shouldn't be 'scrunched up', and both hands should work in concert. Of course, if you swap control with caps-lock then there isn't a caps-lock key on the right hand side of the keyboard, so I'm not sure what folks do in that situation. I'm a happy Kinesis Advantage keyboard user, and that keyboard promotes the above described usage of both sides of the keyboard. I'm not sure how well the Advantage will work out with a thumb injury though as you do use your thumbs quite a bit with it. Kinesis sell a three pedal foot switch that works with their keyboards. Cheers, Jonathan -- jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za has_one { :blog => "http://bloggroll.com" } La deviation pour chauffeur de camion - My driver likes camels.