Tracy R Reed([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:15:42PM -0700 wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > >Mark Schoonover wrote: > >> SNIP > >>I tried to learn emacs not too long ago, but gave up on it - > >>felt it was going to lead to carpal tunnel, banging on the > >>ALT,CTRL keys... > > I remember feeling this way about the escape key when I started > learning vi. > > >That's why the first thing most emacs users do is remap the caps > >lock key to control. :) > > That's what I do now. Caps lock is generally useless anyway. All > it is good for is making you feel stupid when it somehow gets > turned on and you can't figure out your password. > > >Seriously, though, if I were using vi/vim in anger, I would > >probably map escape to caps lock. > > SNIP > > # This sets my caps lock key to be a control key the way it was > meant to be # This only works inside X setxkbmap -option > "ctrl:nocaps"
I suspect Andrew knows this, but it really can help a vi user to map caps-lock to ctrl (as opposed to escape) because C-[ could be used instead of the regular escape key. How do emacs users prefer deal with the C-h/backspace issues? I think most Linux distros map backspace to ^? . When I'm working in a mixed Unix environment, though, backspace gets hosed, and I imagine it would interfere with getting help in emacs... some of us *need* that help facility in a *big* way. It's hard to go from one editor to the other just because there is already a large investment in, and comfort with, the one that is already known. Obviously. But I think what really keeps me from getting emacs is the impatience at being reduced to the functionality of Notepad all over again, The motivation to continue is already gone because that hurdle has already been faced. I'll still keep trying. It's probably good for me. :) Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
