>When Emacs and I first were acquainted, I *completely* customized my
>keyboard...
>
>Well... naturally, we got new keyboards eventually (the first Sun
>workstations), and I was back to square #1. (And there was always the
>problem of temporarily using a different terminal on a
different system - I
>felt naked without my magic keyboard.)
>
>Bit hard; lesson learned. Now I play with the software, and leave the
>keyboard alone.
Heh. I carry my .emacs with me on a USB key, along with my
accumulated library of .els. I can use a few of the native
keybindings, but I consider it a hardship, to be suffered only until
I can load my "real" ones. ;-)
Let me be clearer about what I meant. I too customize key bindings, but I
generally stick to the "usual suspects" when it comes to keys. I don't
fiddle with extra keys that my particular keyboard might have. So, I might
have a different binding than vanilla Emacs for `C-z', and I might add a
binding for `S-tab' (unbound in vanilla Emacs), but I don't bind function
key `f11' or `f32'.
(Yes, I realize that some keyboards also don't have `S-tab', so I guess I'm
not a purist - I just wanted to communicate the general problem of getting
too dependent on a particular keyboard.)
