ash@uva.co.uk wrote:
> … the clear need for an always-on tool that can map key bindings
you all may be interested in XKeymacs. see http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html
FWIW, I too have struggled with this condition over the years. For reasons that don’t matter, I acquired the emacs habit many years ago, and have found it exceedingly difficult to let it go.
Many times I have asked myself “why?” and the answer that comes back is not only that one can’t simply erase decades of muscle memory, but also, that as Mitchell L Model recently wrote (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-May/104265.html), there are “many social, psychological, and cognitive factors that cause people to resist change in general.”
long story short, I think there’s a whole essay if not a book in here. but who would read it?
signed, “Escape Meta Alt Control Shift”
p.s. this note was edited in emacs, and pasted into this lame little textbox.
If you use Windows (and I realize the OP doesn’t), try XKeyMacs. It brings Emacs bindings to Windows apps, including Firefox. When not in a text area, C-n / C-p / C-f / C-b will scroll the web page vertically and horizontally, for example. It’s far more convenient than using arrow keys
That’s one of the nicer things about switching to the Mac, I guess. It just makes that “thunk” sound to tell me that I’m being retarded.
]]>Anyone suffering from cognitive fixation only has themselves to blame and not their text editor for their inflexible mind. You’ve missed the point of emacs for 20 years if you think its strength is Ctrl-a. If you paid attention in your first couple months you might have learned that the ctrl-a is completely arbitrary. If you want another binding it is a one line command to reassign.
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