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Re: Learning emacs
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: Learning emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:37:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Paul O'Donnell <odonnellp@rogers.com> writes:
> I don't know which fingers to use to press [the Alt and Ctrl] keys.
For me, the key to the left of A is a ctrl key. I press that with
the fifth finger of the left hand.
For the alt key (it's known as meta in Emacs), I always use the left
thumb. Now that I think about it it turns out that I very rarely use
the right meta key.
Another thing I do (which reduces the need for meta and ctrl) is to
bind the function keys, in sequences of length two. So for example,
<f2> is the prefix for window-related things, so <f2> <f2> is
other-window, <f2> <f3> is delete-other-windows, <f2> <f4> is
delete-window. Here's how to do it:
(global-set-key (kbd "<f2> <f2>") 'other-window)
I'm sure you can modify this for the other keys.
You could think up a scheme to use then implement it. (I have
reserved <f9> for major modes, for example.)
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