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David Hansen <david.hansen@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:23:49 -0700 (PDT) "xahlee@xxxxxxxxx"
> <xahlee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, Richard Stallman seems to have been influenced by
>> dumb users. He's actually thinking it's a good idea!
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>> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_frm/thread/c92887cbc7c6f843/
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> Now you have to actually implement it, if you want this change.
> Have fun and expect some even longer discussion on emacs-devel.
When I started using Emacs, in 1986, on a Sun 3, I decided that even
C- keys were silly. After all, C-x & C-h are prefixes, ESC is a
prefix equivalent to M-, so why not make a clean sweep? I wrote
enough keybindings to make one of the f keys a prefix key equivalent
to C-, and defined f keys equivalent to all the other prefixes. They
were all in a cluster on the left on that keyboard. (As for the
mouse, I thought of that as something for emergencies only.) I kept
up that attitude thru a variety of computers & keyboards, but the
advent of the Web forced me to use the mouse for some things.
Last year, however, I happened on the Kinesis keyboard, which, tho
exorbitantly expensive, puts both C- & M- (Alt) handy to both thumbs.
That caused me to go back to the original Emacs design, with shifted
keys. Indeed, I have gone the other way & made (e.g.) M-8 equivalent
to C-x 8. Now, Stallman's original vision is implemented without
acrobatics.
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