From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making use of the "windows"-keys Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:49:00 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: References: <1140888768.633586.73110@t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1141044175.689223.322930@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141190311 20492 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2006 05:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 01 06:18:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEJj6-0002xN-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:18:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEJj5-0003Iw-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:18:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!bigfeed2.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0847253b!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.159.38.173 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1141062540 4.159.38.173 (Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:00 PST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:00 PST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137826 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:33450 Archived-At: wrote in message news:1141044175.689223.322930@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > @ B.T.Raven: > > Thanks a big lot for your suggestion; this looks just like the right > thing. > > B. T. Raven wrote: > > By the way, I can't get my thumbs closer to those keys unless I cross my > > hands. Are you using a special keyboard? > > > > Ed > > Hehe, no, only a special touchtyping-system, that allows me a quite > natural hand-posture while typing. Well, actually, it's not that > special at all - just a slightly modified standard-scheme; e.g. > accessing the c-key (not CTRL, the letter C) with the forefinger > instead of the middlefinger and so on. > This way, my hands form an A over the keyboard by default; the only > backside is the wide stretch of the small fingers to acces the > CTRL-keys, which was no problem at all 'til I got rather fed up with > "word processors" and found myself hooked up with the emacs. > > Well, thanks to you, it seems I can now start making full advantage of > it. :-)) > But you do have 4 control keys now don't you? (msw os?) This seems like something of a waste of precious keyboard real-estate to me. Of course the one true keyboard would be based on the Symbolics layout but this is more important for progammers than for us generic writer types. After I learn more about keymaps, I would like to make Ctrl h, t, n, bound to back, transpose, forward char, since I use a Dvorak layout. (Actually, C-t is already transpose-char.