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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:10:14 -0700
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: editors question #2
Message-ID:  <20000817191014.A8664@mammalia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000818112902.C978@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:29:03AM %2B0930
References:  <20000817001546.A248@mammalia.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000817022634.20685A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <20000817003534.B248@mammalia.org> <20000818112902.C978@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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And Greg Lehey spoke:
> On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at  0:35:34 -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> > And David Scheidt spoke:
> >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> >>
> >>> And Mark Ovens spoke:
> >>>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:26:45PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:54:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I recently switched my escape and caps lock keys so I could be more productive
> >>> in vi.  The console keymap is different from the X keymap, so I had to do it
> >>> in two parts:
> >>
> >> You do know that escape is ^[, which is easy enought to type with both
> >> pinkies, and doesn't require reaching for the escape key, assuming the ctrl
> >> key is in the right place?
> >
> > Hmmm.. That would make both vi and emacs easier. I may just give
> > that a try.
> 
> You shouldn't be using the ESC much key in Emacs.  Use alt as meta
> instead.
> 
> Greg

I guess I wasn't being too clear.  I meant that putting control in place
of caps lock will make emacs much more bearable for me.  Then I can use
^[ in place of escape while in vi, which is much easier than reaching
for the escape key.  I'll get the best of both worlds this way.

Joseph


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