Re: Consult some suggestions for adjusting keyboard shortcuts to bind conflicts.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:59 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 02:19:07PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:16 AM Nikolay Kudryavtsev
> > <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, do you use M-s prefix commands? I seldom do, so I've rebound them
> > > to another prefix and use M-s for window switching instead.
> > >
> > > As for running Emacs with multiple input systems, my usual setup is
> > > setting up the OS to switch input language on Caps Lock and Ctrl+Shift,
> > > since neither of those keys mess with Emacs in any way and I seldom need
> > > Caps Lock.
> >
> > Caps Lock in itself will (de)activate the capital character input
> > mode, so, I think maybe Ctrl+Shift is more preferable.
>
> I'm another of those re-using Caps Lock for something different. In
> my case, I use double-shift (i.e. left-shift + right-shift) to switch
> language, and caps lock for Compose (I ♥ compose: very handy :)

What do you mean by saying "compose"?

> See, I'm an old guy: my fingers were trained on a mechanical typewriter,
> and there caps-lock kind of made sense; since "shift" had to push the
> whole type cluster around, it was hard to keep shift pushed with the
> pinky while typing a couple of letters.
>
> Since computer keyboards, I realised that I had no use for caps lock
> (except for pushing it accidentaly while entering passwords, that
> is ;-)
>
> Cheers
>  - t



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