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From: aidan@velvet.net (Aidan Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Emacs Language Sensitive Editing
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:10:06 +0000 (UTC)
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 On 31 Oct 2001 08:50:04 GMT, Peter Hermann
<ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in
<9rodvs$2kh$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>:

>  The major obstacle are those unspeakable special keystroke sequences
>  which I can not map on my different keyboard brands (PC, DEC, SGI, Sun).
>  I wonder how people are using their specific keyboards.

I remap the keyboards I use when possible to have the buttons on either side
of the space bar (alt on pc style) be meta and the button to the left of the
a key (caps lock on pc style) to be control. It's a ltoe more comfortable
than having to reach down with my pinie to hit the control key.

- Aidan
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