Re: Emacs keyboard

[James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Loic J. Duros wrote:

> dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
>
>> Sun (er, oracle) makes that type of keyboard, but
>> also makes one with the control key immediately left
>> of the "A" key, where it was on the original
>> teletype-like machine (name escapes me now, but it
>> ended in "33").
>
> What's the difference with moving the ctrl key to the caps lock key on a
> standard keyboard?
> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

It's not a big difference... just preference - less far to stretch the fingers. 
Capslock always used to be the location of the ctrl key on early keyboards 
which happened to suit those that use the wordstar keybindings (which are the 
most efficient in professional writers opinion... and mine). A lot of emacs 
users like them swapped for emacs bindings. Although i've got used to using the 
right ctrl key for wordstar mode.

james