Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings

[Xah Lee]

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].

here's few relevant articles

〈Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts are Painful〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html

〈How to Avoid the Emacs Pinky Problem〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html

〈Emacs: Why You Should Not Swap {Caps Lock, Control} Keys〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html

〈Bad Advices from Programers about Typing and Keyboard (RSI)〉
http://xahlee.org/kbd/programer_keyboarding_advice.html

 Xah