Re: Making use of the "windows"-keys

[B. T. Raven]

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> @ B.T.Raven:
>
> Thanks a big lot for your suggestion; this looks just like the right
> thing.
>
> B. T. Raven wrote:
> > By the way, I can't get my thumbs closer to those keys unless I cross
my
> > hands. Are you using a special keyboard?
> >
> > Ed
>
> Hehe, no, only a special touchtyping-system, that allows me a quite
> natural hand-posture while typing. Well, actually, it's not that
> special at all - just a slightly modified standard-scheme; e.g.
> accessing the c-key (not CTRL, the letter C) with the forefinger
> instead of the middlefinger and so on.
> This way, my hands form an A over the keyboard by default; the only
> backside is the wide stretch of the small fingers to acces the
> CTRL-keys, which was no problem at all 'til I got rather fed up with
> "word processors" and found myself hooked up with the emacs.
>
> Well, thanks to you, it seems I can now start making full advantage of
> it. :-))
>

But you do have 4 control keys now don't you? (msw os?) This seems like
something of a waste of precious keyboard real-estate to me. Of course the
one true keyboard would be based on the Symbolics layout but this is more
important for progammers than for us generic writer types. After I learn
more about keymaps, I would like to make Ctrl h, t, n, bound to back,
transpose, forward char, since I use a Dvorak layout. (Actually, C-t is
already transpose-char.