Re:Mastering Emacs
by Dewie3 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:46PM
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> 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).
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).