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Swapping caps-lock and control was one of the best decisions I made when starting on Emacs, first item on Steve Yegge's list - http://sites.google.com/site/stev
by sayemm 15y ago
Swapping caps-lock and control was one of the best decisions I made when starting on Emacs, first item on Steve Yegge's list - http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs
- berntb 15y agoI didn't swap them, I made caps-lock an extra control key. You can't be to thin, have too much money or enough control keys. :-) (There is always capitalize-region. Or I can change back, if I need to write a lot of upper case, which is very unusual.)
- prodigal_erik 15y agoOnly having one easily-reached Ctrl key strikes me as a bad idea. Rather than chord a left-hand key with a right-hand Ctrl, you're likely to contort your left hand to do both (I know I used to), which has gotta screw up at least your touch typing habits if not your hand.
- sayemm 15y agoYup, I still have my right-hand Ctrl key on guard for my right pinky. Like the comment below, I just swapped the left-hand Ctrl key and Caps-lock, that's definitely helped me.
- kleiba 15y agoI actually believe that the Emacs Pinky is really a Shift Pinky: with CTRL remapped to Caps Lock, it's quite easy on my hand, because I can keep the pinky in more or less the same position (almost stretched out) most of the time. It's just when I hit the left Shift key that I have to bend the finger, and alternating between Shift and Control is what I find stressful on my Pinky. Does anyone have similar experiences?
- deadcyclo 15y agoExactly my experience as well