Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... > Realistically, with customize themes, we could put a `keymap' topic in > the Help menu (`keyboard' if you think PC users wouldn't catch on). > This could have a set of themes (Windose Notepad, Word, Happy > Hacking---disables all unnecessary keys, old-duffer-emacs, > the-one-true-keymap---alias for old-duffer-emacs and my personal > favorite, etc). Then there could be an optional `keymap test' which > drops the user into a test buffer and exercises as many of the > controversial or difficult keys as we can think of. Have you ever used EDT emulation in Emacs? It starts off by quizzing the user about where all the keys are. Exploring the Linux kbd package might be a place to start. I don't know if anyone has written a program to facilitate writing a keyboard map, but I know kbd provides a huge variety of different keyboard mappings. > If we were serious about interface improvement. (I'm not, not enough > to implement the above :-( gomenne.) Don't be sorry. Someone will implement it. Maybe me.