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The trick with emacs is to get a keyboard where you can press CTRL with your palm instead of fingers. I've been really doing it until I switched to zed.
Just swap Left Control and Caps Lock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
The problem is that Control on PC keyboards is in a place where it's really uncomfortable to use on a very frequent basis. Giving Caps Lock, which virtually nobody uses terribly heavily, that prime piece of real estate is just nuts.
On Debian Linux, that's:
/etc/default/keyboard:
And:
That'll handle the Linux console and X11/Wayland. Only place you'll ever see Control in its PC location then is in the bootloader and BIOS.
That'll also cover laptop internal keyboards or something like that, where you are gonna have limited options for hardware alternatives and can't use exotic keyboards.
The position of Caps Lock is because on mechanical typewriters, the shift lock key physically held down Shift using a push-to-toggle mechanism. (Windows' default German layout still does that! "German extended (E1)" and "German (IBM)", aka DIN T1, don't.)
Hmm. Left Control is still adjacent to Shift, though.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Corona
This 1930s US Army typewriter has a Shift Lock, but it's up where 1 is today, not adjacent to Shift. I don't think that it's essential, even with a mechanical coupling, to have them adjacent.
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I mean, I'd think that unless maybe you have one of those electric typewriters with an LCD display, there isn't a Control key at all, so I totally get giving the slot to Caps Lock on a typewriter then.
This Shift Lock is still directly above the Shift key. But nevertheless, we needn't worry about that. We also put 6 symbols on one type, and decide whether a key is dead based on modifiers. (e.g. AltGr+J is the cedille)
For people that type a lot using Level 3 (e.g. using the QWERTZ layout), AltGr on Caps is probably more important. On NixOS, it's set with two options:
The kernel console REALLY doesn't like E1 putting the lv5 switch on
<M-f>, and instead deletes the f key, so don't use the second option if your layout does that. (Just try it out and don't gc until you've verified all keys work.)The trick are homerow mods.
The trick is a steno keyboard, lol.
keyboars with thumb clusters is where it's really at
I'm still using homerow mods on my cheapino