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Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience |
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Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:14:38 +0200 |
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Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What I mean is that perhaps concentrating on keys is the wrong thing to
>> do, vs. concentrating on bindings and the fact that you can configure
>> them as you want, and that the default bindings (foremost the oldest of
>> them) are quite _optimized_.
>
> But they are hard to press. In the Space-cadet keyboard[fn:1], one of
> the early Lisp Machine keyboards, Ctrl key besides the space bar
> (similar to the position of Alt keys on PC keyboards), and Meta to the
> left of Ctrl. So, the Ctrl key is easier to press than Meta. This is
> why, the key bindings for the most used commands in Emacs involve the
> Ctrl key instead of the Meta key, I think. But Ctrl is not easy to
> press now. Yes, we can move the Ctrl key[fn:2], but many new users
> don't know that.
That's the problem. Let's solve it, put that in your .xmodmap:
!------------------------------------------------------------
! Sixth line
!------------------------------------------------------------
keycode 37 = Super_L
keycode 133 = Meta_L
keycode 64 = Control_L
keycode 65 = space space digitspace digitspace
keycode 108 = Control_R
keycode 134 = Meta_R
keycode 135 = Super_R
keycode 105 = Hyper_R
> And some commands that are frequently used, such as {open, save, close
> buffer}, all require multiple keystrokes with the difficult Ctrl key.
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [fn:1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space-cadet.jpg
>
> [fn:2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
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