From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5ee2582c-026b-4ab3-b5a7-c2d3e66ff511@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> <4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337987419 1675 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 23:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:10:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 01:10:19 2012 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 1SY3eA-0004AX-El for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 01:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY3e9-0006ti-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:10:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337987322 7296 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2012 23:08:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192574 comp.emacs:102472 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:84980 Archived-At: On May 25, 3:24=C2=A0pm, Thad Floryan wrote: > On 5/25/2012 10:37 AM, Xah Lee wrote: > > > xah wrote: > >> my first voice blog. > >> =E3=80=88The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs's Key System=E3=80=89 > >>http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_keybinding_redesign.html > > > Xah wrote: > > =C2=A0=C2=ABHere's a new thing i've learned. Normally, it's a good advi= ce to > > press combination keys using both hands. That is, suppose you want to > > press=E3=80=90Ctrl+x=E3=80=91. You should use right hand to hold right = Ctrl and left > > hand to press x. But if you are a touch typer and leave your hand in > > standard position, so you press the x with 4th finger. That'll cause a > > major problem if done often.=C2=BB > > [...] > > Which is why sane people remap [Caps Lock] to be another [Ctrl]. > > For Emacs on Windows [Win2K-SP4, WinXP-SP3, Vista-SP2, Win7-SP1]: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Details: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Program: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 > > For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an > input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 xkeycaps: > > or use the user preferences [depending on the distro or desktop] to > make the [Caps Lock] be another [Ctrl]. here's few relevant articles =E3=80=88Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts are Painful=E3=80=89 http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html =E3=80=88How to Avoid the Emacs Pinky Problem=E3=80=89 http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html =E3=80=88Emacs: Why You Should Not Swap {Caps=C2=A0Lock, Control} Keys=E3= =80=89 http://xahlee.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html =E3=80=88Bad Advices from Programers about Typing and Keyboard (RSI)=E3=80= =89 http://xahlee.org/kbd/programer_keyboarding_advice.html Xah