[ale] emacs wrists

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Nick Lucent writes:
> > does anyone have a particular keybinding that like to use for emacs to
> > override the brain damaged use of ctrl and alt? I have remapped ctrl to
> > caps lock, but that still leaves the alt key, and I dont know where to put
> > it. 
> 
> I use the alt key.  It works well and your left thumb can tuck under
> your hand pretty easily.  You could also map it to the right control
> key, but that is probably more strain on your wrists.
> > 
> > Nick -- aka wimpy wrists =)
> > 
> If your wrists are going I imaging that the first thing to do is remap
> the cursor control keys in emacs.  CTRL-f,b,n,p are about the worst
> possible keys to use.  I use CTRL-h,j,k,l for my control keys--almost
> no strain at all.

There's always the best solution, which no one has mentioned.  Use vim
instead.

g,d, and r,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                                  chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu