Michael Brand <michael.br...@alumni.ethz.ch> writes: > First of all I am interested in improving the use of the modifier > keys. To see what my preferences for moving them are read my (cisum) > post here http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=2552#p2552 and > follow both links there.
I am quite carpal, and do a few things to compensate for it. I map capslock to control, always. I use abbrev-mode for stuff like "I don't wouldn't shouldn't I'd and I'm", so I just type them lower case, without the quote, and abbrev expands them for me. (I would love it if someone wrote a clever routine to figure out when to use it's vs its, I can't ever get it right anyway. Something that would activate at the end of a sentence, look for an obvious verb, and take a best guess at the possessive or contraction form, but I digress...) I use auto-capitalize-mode to handle sentence starts and, also, words like Linux and LISP also get the correct casing treatment. (I'd love to have a much bigger list of abbrevs, I should go looking for one) These two modes in combination almost eliminates entirely my need to hit the shift key. In addition to cntrl-h being backspace, so is control-j. In text modes, I have been known to remap ; and ' to return. I figure for a few computer languages (like python) I could do that, too. I find making this context switch kind of hard (and it drives other people nuts)), however, I'd stopped doing it, until recently, because I wasn't running my life out of emacs and other apps don't take kindly to losing those keys. Although I agree with many of xah lee's suggestions ( http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html) about remapping emacs more ergonomically, he's wrong about meta. The second easiest thing for me to hit, after caps-lock, is the chord of capslock+shift. It's easier than alt or meta by far. That said, I have only mapped that to a few things because I just can't seem to stop using cntrl-x for commands, it's too ingrained. I'd like to save future generations pain, however... (Mostly where I remapped something that was normally cntrl-whatever, I made it cntrl-shift-whatever) I used to have a BTC keyboard with a split spacebar, half backspace, half space. Loved it. Why the spacebar has to be so huge and the other keys relatively so tiny bothers me a lot. Given the relative flexibility of my thumbs, I wouldn't mind a triply split keyboard spacebar - backspace, space, and control. I keep meaning, one of these days, to figure out how to invert the upper row of the keyboard by default. I find it much easier to type numbers on the keypad, anyway, and hitting shift to get to !...@#$%^&*() seems redundant. -- Dave Taht http://the-edge.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode