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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs
- Subject: Re: hand injuries
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:51:54
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
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- In-reply-to: fstx@meryl.csd.uu.se's message of 26 Jan 93 23:06:07 GMT
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- In article <fstx.728089567@meryl> fstx@meryl.csd.uu.se (Fredrik Stax{ng) writes:
- >I get the impression that your keyboard only has one control key. Do you
- >think it might help if you had two, like on the 102-key IBM PC keyboard?
-
- The problem is that both of those control keys are in totally useless
- places. That's one of the ways I injured myself. Stretching my hand
- in awkward ways to get the Ctrl and Alt keys at the bottom of the
- keyboard caused all sorts of problems. The pain didn't start to go
- away until I stopped using that keyboard. At work, where I use an HP
- keyboard, I remapped the `caps' (which is situated to the left of the
- control key, adjacent to home row) key to be a meta key, and that has
- made a world of difference. I used to think it was stupid for there
- to be a caps key to the left of the control key, but now I'm grateful
- for it.
-
- Here's the xmodmap sequence for hp9000s. If you really want a caps
- lock key (you must be out of your mind), you can map it somewhere
- else, like maybe the STOP key. Anyway, this seems to work with all of
- the series I've used regardless of the OS (300, 700, and 800):
-
- ! Make Caps key act as Meta. First remove Meta_R from it's previous key.
- ! I have no idea why this is necessary, but it's the only way to make it
- ! work. I just assign it some random binding, like Shift_R.
- keycode 10 = Shift_R
- remove mod1 = Meta_R
- keycode 55 = Meta_R
- add mod1 = Meta_R
-