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My pinky starts hurting when I hear emacs.

narrator 12y ago
Remap Caps Lock to control. You can even do this in MacOS.
sjm 12y ago
I've been using Emacs for years with a Happy Hacking Pro 2 keyboard (where what is normally caps-lock is control) and never had any kind of "Emacs pinky" issue. Remapping caps-lock to control is a must!
- technomancy 12y ago
  Caps as Ctrl is good, but a keyboard that puts Ctrl on the thumbs is far better, especially for Emacs.
  - sjm 11y ago
    You mean like the Atreus? ;) (I'm quite keen to try it some day! Love your work in the Emacs community by the way.)
bryanlarsen 12y ago
Don't use a finger to press control. Use the pad of your hand.
- yawaramin 12y ago
  Doesn't work on laptops with flat keys :-)
zer0rest 12y ago
place the following in ~/.Xmodmap clear lock clear control add control = Caps_Lock Control_L Control_R
aaronem 12y ago
My eyes start to cross when I hear vim.
melling 12y ago
God-mode http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode
gnuvince 12y ago
I used to have that. A couple tweaks made my experience much better: 1. Remap Caps Lock to Control and press it with my ring finger rather than my pinkie when possible (e.g C-a, C-s, C-d). I still use my pinkie for C-g or C-r, but diminishing the number of times it is used was very helpful 2. Map more keybindings to use Alt rather than Control. I've been using Emacs keybindings for a really long time now, but I think I could be convinced to try the Ergo Emacs keybindings. My only worry is that my keyboard is French Canadian (with dead keys), so I'd probably need to first start by remapping a bunch of shortcuts.
- optimusclimb 12y ago
  Since converting to the faith (cult?), I've re-mapped capslock to ctrl on every computer I've owned. Results? Blazingly fast operator on my own machines. Stumbling idiot that's constantly turning on capslock on everyone else's machine :/
- optimusclimb 12y ago
  BTW, wanted to add... A little surprised you've remapped capslock to ctrl, but also remap keybindings to alt. IMHO, alt is more of a stumbling block than control, because you pretty much have to take a hand off of the home row to use it. I find pressing capslock with the pinky not to be a problem, and if anything, have really appreciated a Steve Yegge tip of binding C-x, C-m to M-x (as well as C-x-m, for ultra laziness.)
htns 12y ago
Just map Alt-Gr to control
tincholio 12y ago
If 'emacs pinky' is an issue, then you need to work on your google-fu. A cursory look will show you 1001 ways of remapping control to caps lock and other alternatives.

Remap Caps Lock to control. You can even do this in MacOS.

sjm 12y ago

I've been using Emacs for years with a Happy Hacking Pro 2 keyboard (where what is normally caps-lock is control) and never had any kind of "Emacs pinky" issue. Remapping caps-lock to control is a must!

technomancy 12y ago
Caps as Ctrl is good, but a keyboard that puts Ctrl on the thumbs is far better, especially for Emacs.
- sjm 11y ago
  You mean like the Atreus? ;) (I'm quite keen to try it some day! Love your work in the Emacs community by the way.)

bryanlarsen 12y ago

Don't use a finger to press control. Use the pad of your hand.

yawaramin 12y ago
Doesn't work on laptops with flat keys :-)

zer0rest 12y ago

place the following in ~/.Xmodmap clear lock clear control add control = Caps_Lock Control_L Control_R

aaronem 12y ago

My eyes start to cross when I hear vim.

melling 12y ago

God-mode http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode

gnuvince 12y ago

I used to have that. A couple tweaks made my experience much better: 1. Remap Caps Lock to Control and press it with my ring finger rather than my pinkie when possible (e.g C-a, C-s, C-d). I still use my pinkie for C-g or C-r, but diminishing the number of times it is used was very helpful 2. Map more keybindings to use Alt rather than Control. I've been using Emacs keybindings for a really long time now, but I think I could be convinced to try the Ergo Emacs keybindings. My only worry is that my keyboard is French Canadian (with dead keys), so I'd probably need to first start by remapping a bunch of shortcuts.

optimusclimb 12y ago
Since converting to the faith (cult?), I've re-mapped capslock to ctrl on every computer I've owned. Results? Blazingly fast operator on my own machines. Stumbling idiot that's constantly turning on capslock on everyone else's machine :/
optimusclimb 12y ago
BTW, wanted to add... A little surprised you've remapped capslock to ctrl, but also remap keybindings to alt. IMHO, alt is more of a stumbling block than control, because you pretty much have to take a hand off of the home row to use it. I find pressing capslock with the pinky not to be a problem, and if anything, have really appreciated a Steve Yegge tip of binding C-x, C-m to M-x (as well as C-x-m, for ultra laziness.)

htns 12y ago

Just map Alt-Gr to control

tincholio 12y ago

If 'emacs pinky' is an issue, then you need to work on your google-fu. A cursory look will show you 1001 ways of remapping control to caps lock and other alternatives.