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I switched to emacs a year ago and I love it. I feel a lot more productive when everything I need is in single window. However, just recently, I started feeling

by amasad 11y ago

I switched to emacs a year ago and I love it. I feel a lot more productive when everything I need is in single window. However, just recently, I started feeling what used to be minor RSI to be a major discomfort. There are days where I can't type at all. I don't know if emacs' key bindings is mainly to blame here, but it seems like it. evil-mode have been recommended to me but I'm hesitant because I never liked vim's key bindings.

qb45 11y ago
> I never liked vim's key bindings. How... dare you? Did you really try? What's wrong with them? I'm finding vi mighty fine. I switched my shells to vi mode and hate going back. Maybe you need to try Dvorak, I have to admit I've never used vi on QWERTY :)
- amasad 11y ago
  hah, I did try it multiple times. In total I think I suffered through it for 3 months. No progress :/
rekado 11y ago
I recommend God mode. On my Thinkpad X200S I bind the mode switcher key to the right mouse button, which is easily reached by the right thumb. With God mode you don't have to relearn key bindings, you just no longer need to hit Control and Alt. https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode
- amasad 11y ago
  This looks amazing, thank you!
progman 11y ago
The first thing every Emacs user should learn is how to customize key bindings. With global-set-key you can assign arbitrary keys (function keys etc.) to arbitrary commands. Of course you have to learn Elisp for that but that's not too hard. It is worth the effort to learn the basics of Elisp if you want to become really productive in Emacs. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Commands.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ke... Emacs is the most advanced programmable editor ever, and that's the reason why it is still alive. I use it every day for almost thirty years. Of course I don't use the default configuration but a very conventient custom one. In Unix you just need to know just two editors - Emacs and vi. Vi because it is the default editor on every Unix platform. At first vi's key bindings looked crazy but after a while they felt just natural.

by amasad 11y ago

qb45 11y ago

> I never liked vim's key bindings. How... dare you? Did you really try? What's wrong with them? I'm finding vi mighty fine. I switched my shells to vi mode and hate going back. Maybe you need to try Dvorak, I have to admit I've never used vi on QWERTY :)

amasad 11y ago
hah, I did try it multiple times. In total I think I suffered through it for 3 months. No progress :/

rekado 11y ago

I recommend God mode. On my Thinkpad X200S I bind the mode switcher key to the right mouse button, which is easily reached by the right thumb. With God mode you don't have to relearn key bindings, you just no longer need to hit Control and Alt. https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode

amasad 11y ago
This looks amazing, thank you!

progman 11y ago

The first thing every Emacs user should learn is how to customize key bindings. With global-set-key you can assign arbitrary keys (function keys etc.) to arbitrary commands. Of course you have to learn Elisp for that but that's not too hard. It is worth the effort to learn the basics of Elisp if you want to become really productive in Emacs. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Commands.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ke... Emacs is the most advanced programmable editor ever, and that's the reason why it is still alive. I use it every day for almost thirty years. Of course I don't use the default configuration but a very conventient custom one. In Unix you just need to know just two editors - Emacs and vi. Vi because it is the default editor on every Unix platform. At first vi's key bindings looked crazy but after a while they felt just natural.