Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings

[Xah Lee]

xah wrote:
> my first voice blog.
> 〈The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs's Key System〉
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_keybinding_redesign.html

Xah wrote:
 «Here's a new thing i've learned. Normally, it's a good advice to
press combination keys using both hands. That is, suppose you want to
press【Ctrl+x】. You should use right hand to hold right Ctrl and left
hand to press x. But if you are a touch typer and leave your hand in
standard position, so you press the x with 4th finger. That'll cause a
major problem if done often.»

On May 25, 6:22 am, "B. T. Raven" <btra...@nihilo.net> wrote:
«This was obvious from the start. You shouldn't have switched to CUA.»

note that, 【Ctrl+x】 is used by emacs more heavily than CUA's cut. So,
it's even worse.

Raven wrote:
«If you are that drastic you might as well go whole hog and redesign
the Emacs ui for gaming keyboards with n-key rollover. That would make
room for comfortably adding trillions of new bindings.»

yeah a hardware keyboard is certainly much better.

the best i can think of are:

μTron ($570)
http://xahlee.org/kbd/uTRON_keyboard.html

“Truly Ergonomic” ($200)
http://xahlee.org/kbd/Truly_Ergonomic_keyboard.html

Kinesis (≈$250)
http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_Kinesis.html

my analysis of their design, for my personal taste, starting with
best, are: μTron, TE, Kinesis.

What's your fav?

Raven wrote:
«… I think that ergonomic science is far enough advanced that the
mouse can be done away with for most applications (even Autocad and
Photoshop).»

i don't think this is true. e.g. just look at browser. There is
absolutely no way keyboard can beat Mouse. Unless, you are considering
other fancy devices other than traditional keyboard. (e.g. touch-pad,
pen devices, touch screen, etc.)


Raven wrote:
«
Besides dvorak layout and keytweak rearrangement in order to locate
the most used modkeys closest to the (split) backspace-spacebar, the
only changes I've made to default bindings are these:

;; Single char cursor movement on Dvorak layout
(global-set-key [(meta h)] 'backward-char-nomark)
(global-set-key [(meta n)] 'forward-char-nomark)
(global-set-key [(meta c)] 'previous-line-nomark)
(global-set-key [(meta t)] 'next-line-nomark)
(global-set-key [(meta H)] 'mark-paragraph) ;; upcased default
bindings
(global-set-key [(meta N)] 'next-buffer)
(global-set-key [(meta C)] 'capitalize-word)
(global-set-key [(meta T)] 'transpose-words)

shift-backspace and shift-space were at one time assigned to ( and )
[much easier than shift-9 and shift-10) but shift-space now resolves
to
space, I know not why.
»

Nice. Weren't you using ergoemacs keybinding before? didn't like other
keys?

 Xah