From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 11:57:43 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider 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: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338048025 21178 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2012 16:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 16:00:25 +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 18:00:25 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 1SYJPh-0000AF-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 18:00:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYJPh-00010X-EA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 12:00:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 59 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="eEvqGQsJJYL9/mBIdBpRPw"; logging-data="21170"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18PzhlTrTo/WABS1ZeKn0v4IBYibNSj8Dw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wNKKMVLjSuyPOQzCGhYDo6d41Q8= sha1:+jKU3STFtcKTNHpXuYao3BuBzvU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192590 comp.emacs:102480 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:84996 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > On May 25, 3:24 pm, Thad Floryan wrote: >> On 5/25/2012 10:37 AM, Xah Lee wrote: >> >> > xah wrote: >> >> my first voice blog. >> >> 〈The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs's Key System〉 >> >>http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_keybinding_redesign.html >> >> > Xah wrote: >> >  «Here's a new thing i've learned. Normally, it's a good advice to >> > press combination keys using both hands. That is, suppose you want to >> > press【Ctrl+x】. 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.» >> > [...] >> >> Which is why sane people remap [Caps Lock] to be another [Ctrl]. >> >> For Emacs on Windows [Win2K-SP4, WinXP-SP3, Vista-SP2, Win7-SP1]: >> >>    Details: >> >>         >> >>    Program: >> >>         >> >> For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an >> input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]: >> >>     xkeycaps: >> >> or use the user preferences [depending on the distro or desktop] to >> make the [Caps Lock] be another [Ctrl]. > > Thad Floryan, is it? did i get ur name right? > > Perhaps you'd be interested in reading my one hundred and twenty three > essays about why you shouldn't do that? Perhaps you should read more carefully. Thad remapped Caps Lock to ANOTHER Ctrl. He didn't SWAP anything. When I want all uppercase, Emacs is fully capable of uppercasing as much typing as I need. I don't need or want a Caps Lock key anywhere on my keyboard. You'll need to create another write up that explains why we can't live without CAPS LOCK. -- Dan Espen