Re: ergonomic keybindings in text mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Markus Grunwald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently, I read in this group about a more ergonomic keylayout for emacs:
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html
> Since I had Problems with my joints for a long time, I decided to try it.

You may want to read this too:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers

and perhaps (if it fits you), the bottom of Alex page

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AlexSchroeder

My experience is very similar to Alex. And I always use sticky modifiers.


> But I have one slight problem: text-mode changes a lot of bindings that I
> would like to have. text-mode-hook does not look suspicious:
>
> text-mode-hook is a variable defined in `text-mode.el'.
> Its value is 
> ((lambda nil
>    (auto-fill-mode 1)
>    (abbrev-mode 1)
>    (message "==================== text-mode-hook ===================="))
>  text-mode-hook-identify)
>
> What can I do about it ? The only thing that came to my mind is to re-bind
> all keys in text-mode-hook but this does not seem elegant to me...
>
> TIA,
> Markus