Re: swapping C-x and C-j reliably for ergonomic reasons

[Bernardo]

Le Wang said the following on 19/02/11 04:57:
> Hi,
>
> I do this from my .emacs.el:
>
> (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-j)
> (keyboard-translate ?\C-j ?\C-x)
>
>
> This is part of my ongoing effort to use Emacs more ergonomically.  It works
> most of the time, however, ocassionally when I press C-j,
> `newline-and-indent' still runs.  I haven't put my finger on the exact
> sequences of events that cause this.
guess the "lossage" (C-h l) doesn't reveal much in such a case?

> My Emace environment is heavily customized, so any number of things could be
> causing this.  It seems from the wiki and blogs that this swap is quite
> common among power users

i don't use this kind of customisation, but recently when one of my 
ergonomic keyboards wore out i looked for a keyboard where (the right) 
CTRL key is easily reached while my right index finger rests on the J 
key; it turned out that small keyboards were much better in that sense; 
(i'm reasonably happy with "mobile keyboard 6000" but would encourage 
anyone taking this path to do their own testing)