For Windows, KeyTweak looks like a helpful free utility for remapping the keyboard:
Effective Emacs
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Re: Effective Emacs
#12This is so fucking old.
It's not old, it's just wrong to emphasize _the tool_ so much. Don't know about the author, but being productive doesn't equal being masterful typist. I had a member of the team, who was above average productive in notepad (yes, notepad!) and I also had someone who was below average productive in emacs (I always let the programmers decide, what tool they use). And I am not talking about being fast, but about producin…
While it could have been better phrased, he is correct that the "Effective Emacs" post is old and well-known. It's been mentioned dozens of times on HN -- so it's a little surprising that no one had yet submitted the link.
Re: Effective Emacs
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what I always do, and is easily done in both Mac OS X and in most Linux distributions.
In GNOME 2.24: "Keyboard Preferences" > "Layouts" > "Layout Options" > "Ctrl key position" > "Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl" OR "Swap Ctrl and CapsLock" You can use the same utility to swap Esc and CapsLock.
Broke my xmonad. :-(