Effective Emacs

#1

Post by beffbernard » Wed, Apr 08, 2009, 11:02 PM UTC

Effective Emacs
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Re: Effective Emacs

#2

Post by mhb » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 1:44 AM UTC

Why not bind to caps-lock instead of swapping them - have on both keys? Except for the rare people who actually use caps-lock.

Re: Effective Emacs

#3

Post by metajack » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 1:55 AM UTC

mhb wrote: post #2

Why not bind to caps-lock instead of swapping them - have on both keys? Except for the rare people who actually use caps-lock.

That's exactly what I always do, and is easily done in both Mac OS X and in most Linux distributions.

Re: Effective Emacs

#4

Post by litewulf » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 2:08 AM UTC

mhb wrote: post #2

Why not bind to caps-lock instead of swapping them - have on both keys? Except for the rare people who actually use caps-lock.

Because this frees up the ctrl key to be an extra backspace!

Re: Effective Emacs

#5

Post by capablanca » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 3:04 AM UTC

This is so fucking old.

Re: Effective Emacs

#6

Post by travisjeffery » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 4:03 AM UTC

If you're just learning Emacs this is an essential piece of literature to read to get you up to snuff on Emacs.

And always good to check back everyone once and a while for experts.

Re: Effective Emacs

#7

Post by jan_g » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC

capablanca wrote: post #5

This 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 producing quality code.

Re: Effective Emacs

#8

Post by dimitar » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 7:41 AM UTC

metajack wrote: post #3

mhb wrote: post #2

Why not bind to caps-lock instead of swapping them - have on both keys? Except for the rare people who actually use caps-lock.

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.

Re: Effective Emacs

#9

Post by swombat » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 8:59 AM UTC

Item 1: Swap Caps-Lock and Control

On Mac OS X (Panther and Jaguar) you need to install a modified keyboard driver...

No you don't. Just open your Keyboard&Mouse preferences, select the "Keyboard" tab, and click on the "Modifier Keys" button...

Re: Effective Emacs

#10

Post by almost » Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 9:22 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #9

Item 1: Swap Caps-Lock and Control On Mac OS X (Panther and Jaguar) you need to install a modified keyboard driver ... No you don't. Just open your Keyboard&Mouse preferences, select the "Keyboard" tab, and click on the "Modifier Keys" button...

You did when he wrote that article. And it was a right pain too...