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Haha fair enough! Retro term definitely looks cool. (Of course could then use Evil in Emacs for Vim keys, or just run vim in a terminal inside Emacs...)

by podiki 6y ago

CarelessExpert 6y ago
Honestly, I've periodically considered heading back to Emacs-land to see how things have changed. I used to be an Emacs user back in the early 2000s but Emacs pinky hit me something fierce (it's my own fault; I have poor typing style so I never use the right control, and I could never adapt to the control-capslock swap) so I jumped into Vim and never looked back. But I gotta admit, Orgmode, among other things, has me feeling a bit Emacs-curious these days... ;)
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Give Doom emacs or Spacemacs a shot too--it's the power of emacs with an opionated vim style keybinding. They're really slick in my experience.
- podiki 6y ago
  As another commenter said, there are some nice all-in-one setups or minimal but sane defaults. I haven't used them but hear very good things. And don't forget you always have Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs (I think Spacemacs by default uses it?). I should finally learn the Vim way. At the very least so when I forget to set EDITOR for root and edit some config, I'm not totally useless. That'll teach me for not opening it up (with sudo via how Emacs handles things like ssh) in my favorite editor. And org-mode is great, I've been doing more and more in Emacs and org these days (email, notes, todo, writing, coding).
- opan 6y ago
  Have you thought about trying a different keyboard? I use a Pinky4 and have ctrl (and alt and super) on a thumb key. It both moves these keys from your weakest finger to your strongest, and keeps your pinky free so you can maintain homerow even for something like C-a. Alternatively, you may be able to hit some of the modifiers with the side of your hand instead of your pinky. That's what I did with my previous keyboard (Pok3r). It also made it easy to hit ctrl and super at the same time for some of my window manager keybinds that use both keys.
  - CarelessExpert 6y ago
    If I was going down that path, the ctrl-capslock swap is the first thing I'd try, along with training myself to use the right control key. But all of this requires changing my typing style, and I've been typing the same way for, like, 25 years. Put it this way: I chose to learn Vim instead of change how I type because that was easier. ;)

Haha fair enough! Retro term definitely looks cool. (Of course could then use Evil in Emacs for Vim keys, or just run vim in a terminal inside Emacs...)

by podiki 6y ago

Haha fair enough! Retro term definitely looks cool. (Of course could then use Evil in Emacs for Vim keys, or just run vim in a terminal inside Emacs...)

CarelessExpert 6y ago

Honestly, I've periodically considered heading back to Emacs-land to see how things have changed. I used to be an Emacs user back in the early 2000s but Emacs pinky hit me something fierce (it's my own fault; I have poor typing style so I never use the right control, and I could never adapt to the control-capslock swap) so I jumped into Vim and never looked back. But I gotta admit, Orgmode, among other things, has me feeling a bit Emacs-curious these days... ;)

qbasic_forever 6y ago
Give Doom emacs or Spacemacs a shot too--it's the power of emacs with an opionated vim style keybinding. They're really slick in my experience.
podiki 6y ago
As another commenter said, there are some nice all-in-one setups or minimal but sane defaults. I haven't used them but hear very good things. And don't forget you always have Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs (I think Spacemacs by default uses it?). I should finally learn the Vim way. At the very least so when I forget to set EDITOR for root and edit some config, I'm not totally useless. That'll teach me for not opening it up (with sudo via how Emacs handles things like ssh) in my favorite editor. And org-mode is great, I've been doing more and more in Emacs and org these days (email, notes, todo, writing, coding).
opan 6y ago
Have you thought about trying a different keyboard? I use a Pinky4 and have ctrl (and alt and super) on a thumb key. It both moves these keys from your weakest finger to your strongest, and keeps your pinky free so you can maintain homerow even for something like C-a. Alternatively, you may be able to hit some of the modifiers with the side of your hand instead of your pinky. That's what I did with my previous keyboard (Pok3r). It also made it easy to hit ctrl and super at the same time for some of my window manager keybinds that use both keys.
- CarelessExpert 6y ago
  If I was going down that path, the ctrl-capslock swap is the first thing I'd try, along with training myself to use the right control key. But all of this requires changing my typing style, and I've been typing the same way for, like, 25 years. Put it this way: I chose to learn Vim instead of change how I type because that was easier. ;)