From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thad Floryan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:24:35 -0700 Organization: ThadLABS 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: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337988314 7391 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 23:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:25:14 +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 01:25:14 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 1SY3sf-0002Q9-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY3sf-00022k-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:25:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Ffcll78vPb9FFcAvz2XZlA"; logging-data="10358"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IvRuhqcYnvexqHEPVsvHdihH23VbXDdg=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: <4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:aCu92Pc5GxmRMGVq4n/kDKoOdpw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192575 comp.emacs:102473 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:84981 Archived-At: On 5/25/2012 3:24 PM, Thad Floryan wrote: > [...] > 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]. Another "trick" for Windows systems is to put Emacs in the context menu -- when right-clicking a file, Emacs will appear in the list as a choice. Here's the identical method using regedit on all Windows: