Re: dvorak worth the effort?

I've thought of doing that, but have resisted for the very reasons you cited as becoming problematical. I've *never* been able to get used to the mapping on a standard PC keyboard where the big key left of the A is Caps Lock and Control is one of those little keys along the bottom. I had the good fortune to have a terminal with a keyboard that had control on what is usually Caps Lock for two or three years, During which time I was using Emacsen constantly. And Emacs, possibly more than any other program, is heavily keyboard oriented. And therefore is built, as Uwe describes it, in such a way as to be hardwired into my brain. Not just the letters but all the meta key combinations we use so constantly. In another life I was a musician, and have no problem teaching my hands to execute commands, or memorizing key bindings. I realize that other people don't have it so easy. (I believe there's a correlation.) I tried for a good two weeks once (when I had little choice, though I can't remember why) to get used to having Caps Lock to an actual Caps Lock (the single most useless function on any keyboard, mapped to one of the biggest and easiest to access keys), and control down in that cluster of keys I was constantly missing. When I considered moving my main work environment from Linux to the Mac, once I learned that (a) I could still run XEmacs (and I also have GNU Emacs), and (b) I could map the keyboard the way I want it, making the switch was a no-brainer. It may have been me who started the discussion on this topic, with Xmodmap and all the rest, as I was trying to make the switch to the latest beta while configuring my new iMac in late December. I got things working like I want them, so didn't pursue it any further. Of course, I still run a Linux machine ... where I still have a .Xmodmap file. Uwe, was your original question adequately answered? I saw what looked like some better information than I would have provided. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta