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

[Thad Floryan]

On 5/25/2012 3:24 PM, Thad Floryan wrote:
> [...]
> Which is why sane people remap [Caps Lock] to be another [Ctrl].
> 
> For Emacs on Windows [Win2K-SP4, WinXP-SP3, Vista-SP2, Win7-SP1]:
> 
>    Details:
> 
>        <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578.aspx>
> 
>    Program:
> 
>        <http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Ctrl2Cap.zip>
> 
> For *BSD, Linux, Solaris and UNIX systems, use xkeycaps to create an
> input file for xmodmap [xmodmap is part of all X distributions]:
> 
>     xkeycaps: <http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/>
> 
> or use the user preferences [depending on the distro or desktop] to
> make the [Caps Lock] be another [Ctrl].

Another "trick" for Windows systems is to put Emacs in the context
menu -- when right-clicking a file, Emacs will appear in the list as
a choice.  Here's the identical method using regedit on all Windows:

    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/Emacs_regedit_Win2K.jpg>
    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/Emacs_regedit_WinXP.jpg>
    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/Emacs_regedit_Vista.jpg>
    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/Emacs_regedit_Win7.jpg>