From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 19: 3: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EE237BF34 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02737; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:29:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:29:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: R Joseph Wright Cc: David Scheidt , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: editors question #2 Message-ID: <20000818112902.C978@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000817001546.A248@mammalia.org> <20000817003534.B248@mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000817003534.B248@mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:35:34AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message