On 8 February 2011 04:44, Alexander Fairley <alexander.fair...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Some high profile ruby hackers have put together a pretty snazzy set of > vim/gvim configs together on github at > > https://github.com/carlhuda/janus > > Thank you, but I think this only works on OSX? I use Ubuntu and if I understand your link correctly, gvim has the equivalent functionality. > On the topic of configuring Capslock to be an escape key, it's because > that's where the "meta" key used to be on old school unix keyboards, and so > it makes you double plus unix if you reconfigure things that way(also has > the plus of rendering emacs a lot more usable). > Sorry, I don't know what 'meta' key and 'double plus' means. What I've now done, using Preferences > Keyboard, is to swap the functionality of the Esc and Caps Lock keys. This helps me because I'm a fairly competent touch typist. Every time I need to press Esc on a default keyboard, I have to lift my left hand from the asdf home keys to get at it. This 'breaks the flow' and gets quite annoying after a while. > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote: > >> Alan Gauld wrote: >> >>> "Paul Griffiths" <paulmg2...@gmail.com> wrote >>> >>>> I've learned that: >>>> ... >>>> >>>> - re-configuring the Caps Lock to be an extra Esc saves time >>>> >>> >>> Huh? How do you use that? Its a new one on me. Why would two escape keys >>> be useful? >>> >> >> What if you want to escape the escape, so that (say) esc-C is the same as >> just C? >> >> >> Not-very-helpfully y'rs, >> >> -- >> Steven >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > >
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