Mastering Emacs

Re:Mastering Emacs by weland on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:02PM (#9594167)

Using your palms to press the ctrl keys is only seriously possible on some curved keyboards. Everyone else, who prefers to touch keys with their fingers, like they were meant to, is going to do the sensible stuff and put the more frequently used modifier in the more easily-reachable place.

All this press-ctrl-with-your-palms fad is a problem solved in the wrong place.

And I have to say I dislike the tone of that page, too:

> Swapped but never had a problem [...] > Because you don't actually type that much.

Right.

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Re:Mastering Emacs by emacsfodder on Sunday May 24, 2015 @08:13AM (#9596014)

> All this press-ctrl-with-your-palms fad is a problem solved in the wrong place.

Total agreement from me, I consign this piece of advice to the same trash pile as !!NEVER USE ARROW KEYS!! ... cargo-culting nonsense.

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Re:Mastering Emacs by Dewie3 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:46PM (#9594670)

> Using your palms to press the ctrl keys is only seriously possible on some curved keyboards.

It feels fine to me on my flat keyboard with low-profile keys.

I used to use my pinky to press ctrl. Then I briefly remapped to caps-lock, but that felt awkward to use together with the shift key (but I didn't use it enough to get truly used to it). Then I switched to using my palm, and then finally to using god-mode which means that I don't have to use modifier keys as much anymore (though I still use it sometimes, and I still press ctrl just as much in non-emacs applications like terminals and Firefox).

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