In addition to the recommended CapsLock ⇒ LCtrl rebinding done on the OS level, there are also several things you can do within Emacs to edit and navigate comfo

In addition to the recommended CapsLock ⇒ LCtrl rebinding done on the OS level, there are also several things you can do within Emacs to edit and navigate comfortably. For example, you can add this to your ~/.emacs: (global-set-key [f8] 'view-mode) This lets you quickly enable and disable view-mode, using F8. In view-mode, you can use SPACE and BACKSPACE for scrolling, which is useful for reading longer documents and files. With a Dvorak keyboard, navigation is also more convenient, since for example C-n and C-p are at the respective locations of C-l and C-r on US keyboards, so that both hands are regularly used and not used. Other than that, I recommend to also use search for navigation, and to occasionally read and re-read the first chapters of the Emacs manual: There are many useful commands that can help a lot if you know them and their prefix arguments.