Re:Emacs Typing Tutor
by rwilson4 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:02AM
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I recently bought a Kinesis Advantage 2. Could you be more specific about how you've mapped Ctl and Option? I mapped Delete and End in the left thumb cluster to Ctl and Option resp. What did you do?
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Re:Emacs Typing Tutor
by grumpyprole on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:17AM
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I've mapped Ctrl to the big middle-lower thumb key on both sides; and Alt to the smaller middle-upper thumb key also on both sides. Space is right thumb rightmost big key, backspace is left thumb leftmost big key. Windows key and Delete are small keys; and do require a bit of a reach of the thumb. But I don't use them much (e.g. for delete, I'll do Ctrl+D). Enter I put in its usual place (i.e. not a thumb key). In Emacs I use Ctrl and Alt more than Enter, Space and Backspace. And I like to press them with opposite hands like shift, hence I have them on both sides. This helps avoid stretching.
When exported as a text file from the Advantage2, my mappings look like this:
[=]>[`]
[tab]>[\]
[caps]>[tab]
[up]>[down]
[down]>[up]
[`]>[=]
[lalt]>[lwin]
[ralt]>[delete]
[\]>[']
[lctrl]>[lalt]
[delete]>[lctrl]
[rctrl]>[lalt]
[enter]>[rctrl]
[']>[enter]