David,
Just set caps lock a control key. You'll be much happier, plus caps is much bigger key, easier to press and is placed on a prime real estate on the keyboard(home row). If you are a dvorak user then having caps lock be a control key is even more beneficial. You could easily edit this in your .xmodmap file (I believe that the keycode was 42 or 48) double check that.
I'm also immune the emacs pinky :) coz' when I was little I cut the muscles of my left pinky so deep (it was an accident) that I was never able to bend the 5th distal interphalangeal join on my left hand(the pinky) and that works out great when using emacs.
All the best, Pavel P.S. I'm not suggesting you cut the muscles on your left pinky btw.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Alex Shinn alexshinn@gmail.com wrote:
David St-Hilaire sthilaid@iro.umontreal.ca writes:
I believe I've recently fallen victim to the infamous 'Emacs pinky' sickness (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky)... :(
I made several changes to my working environment in hope to remedy the situation, such as swaping ctl and alt. I also am trying to learn to press control keys with one hand and the other combo key with the other thus using both controls and alt keys. I'll go check today if I can find an ergonomic keyboard too.
Does anyone have some other ideas/tips for improving the situation? Using vi is my last resort option as I am really familiar with emacs and love it alot...
I actually broke my left pinky once snowboarding, and afterwards really wished I had broken a leg instead. It was the least productive few weeks of programming I've ever had.
viper-mode helps, as does using both controls and sometimes just hunting and pecking with both index fingers, but I never found a really satisfying solution.
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