An alternative approach is to have good shortcuts, Spacemacs being my favourite take on it. The idea is to have shorcuts like `<SPACE> f e d`. The shortcuts ten

An alternative approach is to have good shortcuts, Spacemacs being my favourite take on it. The idea is to have shorcuts like `<SPACE> f e d`. The shortcuts tend to be logically organized in levels (f for files, e for editor, d for dotfile, so this opens your emacs dotfile). No need to remap the keys and no issue with painful key combinations at all.