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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:29:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: editors question #2
Message-ID:  <20000818112902.C978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000817003534.B248@mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:35:34AM -0700
References:  <20000817001546.A248@mammalia.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000817022634.20685A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <20000817003534.B248@mammalia.org>

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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
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