That's my number one piece of advice after two decades of Emacsing and one on a Japanese keyboard.
Japanese keyboards have a much shorter space bar with extra keys on either side. Remap these to control, hit them with your thumbs, and experience bliss.
I used to get 'Emacs pinky' quite frequently, but never since the switch. If you think about it, it makes all kinds of sense:
- your thumbs are strong and dextrous but totally underused in a traditional layout
- most space bars are ridiculously large.. wasted real estate
- your non-spacebar thumb can comfortably rest on a ctrl key so there's often no lateral movement at all
Fascinating to see others thinking along the same lines as me with keyboard remapping, and also to discover that all this time we've been trying to get closer to the keyboards of antiquity!
That's my number one piece of advice after two decades of Emacsing and one on a Japanese keyboard.
Japanese keyboards have a much shorter space bar with extra keys on either side. Remap these to control, hit them with your thumbs, and experience bliss.
I used to get 'Emacs pinky' quite frequently, but never since the switch. If you think about it, it makes all kinds of sense:
- your thumbs are strong and dextrous but totally underused in a traditional layout - most space bars are ridiculously large.. wasted real estate - your non-spacebar thumb can comfortably rest on a ctrl key so there's often no lateral movement at all
Fascinating to see others thinking along the same lines as me with keyboard remapping, and also to discover that all this time we've been trying to get closer to the keyboards of antiquity!