I like both kinds of editor & Emacs Pinky Solutions

Posted Nov 2, 2006 18:55 UTC (Thu) by shapr (subscriber, #9077)
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

I'm also a user of both kinds of editor, though I mostly live in xemacs and use tramp for some vim tasks.

Also, there's a solution to the emacs pinky problem: Don't use fingers for chording! (I express it as, "I am not a koala.")

I own a kinesis contoured keyboard and I remapped it such that all modifier keys are under my thumbs. I also remapped home & pgup -> Super and End & PgDn -> Hyper for extra emacs modifier goodness.

My ~/.emacs ends up including about 1500 lines of elisp some of which I've written myself and some downloaded from emacswiki.org and other good sources. (Jef Raskin's Humane Interface ideas are great, see DiskKey, KillKey, etc)

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I like both kinds of editor & Emacs Pinky Solutions

Posted Nov 3, 2006 0:47 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Nifty keymap, and as a Maltron user I see the point of it: but, um, how do
you use the cursor keys, pgup, pgdown, and so on? I don't see any sign
that you've remapped *them* anywhere else...

I like both kinds of editor & Emacs Pinky Solutions

Posted Nov 15, 2006 16:28 UTC (Wed) by shapr (subscriber, #9077) [Link]

I haven't touched the arrow keys, and I use C-v and M-v in place of pgup and pgdn. The only cases where I really miss pgup and pgdn are when I'm using aptitude.

Any suggestions for improving this keymap?