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Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings
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Xah Lee |
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Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings |
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Fri, 25 May 2012 15:47:57 -0700 (PDT) |
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On May 25, 3:24 pm, Thad Floryan <t...@thadlabs.com> 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:
>
> <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578.aspx>
>
> Program:
>
> <http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Ctrl2Cap.zip>
>
> For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an
> input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]:
>
> xkeycaps: <http://www.jwz.org/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?
〈Computer Keyboards, Layouts, Hotkeys, Macros, RSI ⌨〉
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/keyboarding.html
Xah
- a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Xah Lee, 2012/05/22
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, B. T. Raven, 2012/05/25
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Xah Lee, 2012/05/25
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Thad Floryan, 2012/05/25
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings,
Xah Lee <=
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Thad Floryan, 2012/05/25
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Thad Floryan, 2012/05/25
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Xah Lee, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Mark Skilbeck, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Thad Floryan, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Xah Lee, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Joe Corneli, 2012/05/27
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, John Bokma, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Dan Espen, 2012/05/26
- Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings, Xah Lee, 2012/05/26