From: d@teklibre.org (Dave Täht)
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: RSI
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:42:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqfmmv97.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAD25EF.1000405@alumni.ethz.ch> (Michael Brand's message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:03:43 +0200")
Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch> writes:
> First of all I am interested in improving the use of the modifier
> keys. To see what my preferences for moving them are read my (cisum)
> post here http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=2552#p2552 and
> follow both links there.
I am quite carpal, and do a few things to compensate for it.
I map capslock to control, always.
I use abbrev-mode for stuff like "I don't wouldn't shouldn't I'd and
I'm", so I just type them lower case, without the quote, and abbrev
expands them for me.
(I would love it if someone wrote a clever routine to figure out when to
use it's vs its, I can't ever get it right anyway. Something that would
activate at the end of a sentence, look for an obvious verb, and take a
best guess at the possessive or contraction form, but I digress...)
I use auto-capitalize-mode to handle sentence starts and, also, words like
Linux and LISP also get the correct casing treatment. (I'd love to have a
much bigger list of abbrevs, I should go looking for one)
These two modes in combination almost eliminates entirely my need to hit
the shift key.
In addition to cntrl-h being backspace, so is control-j.
In text modes, I have been known to remap ; and ' to return. I figure
for a few computer languages (like python) I could do that, too. I find
making this context switch kind of hard (and it drives other people
nuts)), however, I'd stopped doing it, until recently, because I wasn't
running my life out of emacs and other apps don't take kindly to losing
those keys.
Although I agree with many of xah lee's suggestions (
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html) about remapping
emacs more ergonomically, he's wrong about meta.
The second easiest thing for me to hit, after caps-lock, is the chord of
capslock+shift. It's easier than alt or meta by far. That said, I have
only mapped that to a few things because I just can't seem to stop using
cntrl-x for commands, it's too ingrained. I'd like to save future
generations pain, however...
(Mostly where I remapped something that was normally cntrl-whatever, I made
it cntrl-shift-whatever)
I used to have a BTC keyboard with a split spacebar, half backspace,
half space. Loved it. Why the spacebar has to be so huge and the other
keys relatively so tiny bothers me a lot.
Given the relative flexibility of my thumbs, I wouldn't mind a triply
split keyboard spacebar - backspace, space, and control.
I keep meaning, one of these days, to figure out how to invert the upper
row of the keyboard by default. I find it much easier to type numbers on
the keypad, anyway, and hitting shift to get to !@#$%^&*() seems
redundant.
--
Dave Taht
http://the-edge.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4AAD12BA.90105@alumni.ethz.ch>
2009-09-13 17:03 ` RSI Michael Brand
2009-09-13 20:42 ` Dave Täht [this message]
2009-09-14 9:06 ` RSI Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-09-15 0:56 ` Dave Täht
2009-09-15 9:20 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-09-01 18:11 RSI Samuel Wales
2009-09-01 19:50 ` RSI Matt Lundin
2009-09-07 9:48 ` RSI Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-09-07 11:34 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-09-11 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-09-11 15:29 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-09-07 13:25 ` RSI B Smith-Mannschott
2009-09-07 17:16 ` RSI Daniel Martins
2009-09-08 5:50 ` RSI PT
2009-09-08 8:05 ` RSI B Smith-Mannschott
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