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It's very clearly a joke. [] being easier to type than () is a decent point, though. I wonder if it'd be worth remapping your keyboard to swap them if you writ
by plorkyeran 13y ago
It's very clearly a joke.
[] being easier to type than () is a decent point, though. I wonder if it'd be worth remapping your keyboard to swap them if you write a lot of lisp.
- chrismonsanto 13y agoI have (, [, and { on regular keys on my keyboard. Shifting the key yields the other pair: ), ], }. But since Emacs autocloses parens I rarely need to do this. edit: and it's excellent, I recommend it to all
- yonaguska 13y agoWhat keys did you swap if you don't mind me asking? I've been planning on doing this, but just haven't figured out the optimal location, especially for a laptop.
- chrismonsanto 13y agohttp://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/thehumansolution/kinesis-advantage-dual-legend-dvorak-qwerty.gif http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/thehumansolution/kinesis-adva... - the | \ key next to ~ and left arrow is ( - { [ becomes [ - } ] becomes {
- batgaijin 13y agoI completely agree... I think it's ridiculous that it hasn't been switched in an implementation
- jeorgun 13y agoI have function LispOpts() inoremap [ ( inoremap ] ) inoremap ( [ inoremap ) ] endfunction autocmd FileType scheme call LispOpts() autocmd FileType lisp call LispOpts() in my vimrc, which gains me all the ease-of-typing I really want. I don't think it'd really be worth anything as drastic as actually creating a new keyboard layout. Then again, I don't use lisp all that often, so YMMV on that point.