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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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