Eric, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > > [...] > >> I hope everybody does that. I use both the left and right control keys >> depending on where the "controlled" key is: C-whatever is always a two-hand >> operation for me. M-x is not however (they are close enough so that left >> thumb and index can do the job): both right and left Alt keys are mapped to >> meta so there is no reason it couldn't be other than habit. But I probably >> should get out of the habit. > > As a previous sufferer of serious RSI, I always warn people against > key-chording that requires any contortion. C-M-x (with x=anything on the > left half of the keyboard basically) is a bad thing. In fact, often anything > with M- is bad for me. I tend to avoid such key chords. For instance, for > M-x, I have > > (global-set-key '[(control x) (control m)] 'execute-extended-command) > > Actually, in practice, I use evil-mode everywhere so I have practically no > key chords! For M-x, I type ", x"... I have defined a number of key org > commands into the evil key maps and I'm a happy camper!
Quite a bit OT, but is it true that, for example, to type `C-whatever', we should use both hands, one for `C' and the other for `whatever'? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
