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There is another positive side effect of limiting customization to reasonable levels. Default Emacs shortcuts are hidden everywhere. Most importantly, bash unde
by h91wka 7y ago
There is another positive side effect of limiting customization to reasonable levels. Default Emacs shortcuts are hidden everywhere. Most importantly, bash understands them, as well as many other REPLs (erlang, ghci, julia, ...). Developing muscle memory for the default Emacs allows one to use many tools much more efficiently.
- zozbot234 7y agoDefault Emacs shortcuts are bad for RSI. Even the original author of Emacs has had to cut down pretty dramatically on their coding activity, due to getting "Emacs pinky" and other RSI problems.
- alexhutcheson 7y agoMapping Caps Lock to be "Control" helps a lot with this. Reaching down to the bottom row for Control all the time is terrible and should definitely be avoided. Using Alt as Meta has been less of an issue for me since I can easily hit it with my thumb without moving too much. evil is also great, and it might actually be the most popular option for new users at this point, thanks to Spacemacs and Doom.
- __d 7y agoSecond this: the key to the left of 'A' (for QWERTY) should be control for regular Emacs use.
- donio 6y agoThat's true for traditional keyboards and layouts. A keyboard with a thumb cluster that puts ctrl and meta under your thumbs makes all the difference.