It's not just about how fast you can push code out your brain, but how fast you can manipulate code in your editor. Uppercase that constant, move subroutine bar

It's not just about how fast you can push code out your brain, but how fast you can manipulate code in your editor. Uppercase that constant, move subroutine bar to file foo, indent this section, move this code block 'til after the widget is frobbed, etc. These sorts of boring and tedious editing tasks are the ones I'd really like to speed up, and most of them all require the use of some kind of meta key. It's not just programmers who want to be able to edit quickly, as an ops person sometimes I'm called upon to bang out and edit a lot of UNIX shell commands. Sometimes I'm doing this in tense SEV-fucking-0 situations where being able to edit and type quickly has a real benefit. As an emacs user, my shell editing commands, editor editing commands, and text I type into GUI OSX text widgets all use the same control/meta key editing sequences. I also use a Kinesis, and use the two largest keys on the left 'thumb island' for control and meta. When I'm away from my Kinesis I use caps-lock for control and ESC-[ for meta.