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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 27, 2020 8:16 UTC (Sun) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by mathstuf
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

The most common variants I am aware of are QWERTZ (German), where Y and Z have switched places, and AZERTY (French), where A/Q and W/Z are switched. Both touch on Ctrl-Z (undo), but X/C/V are unchanged. I don't honestly know if any of them typically also switch the hotkey for undo around.

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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 28, 2020 11:40 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (2 responses)

Well there's Dvorak keyboards.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 29, 2020 7:32 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (1 responses)

As a Dvorak user, I am perfectly happy with cut/copy/paste not being optimized for my keyboard layout.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Oct 1, 2020 3:21 UTC (Thu) by jasone (subscriber, #2423) [Link]

Same here, but Dvorak layout *would* be an ergonomic problem if my typical workflow involved much reaching for the mouse.