Interesting you said that programming in Emacs helps reducing RSI.
When I was a heavy Emacs user, my left hand outer-side wrist is in constant pain because of always reaching the Control button.
When I was a heavy Emacs user, my left hand outer-side wrist is in constant pain because of always reaching the Control button.
With Caps Lock as control, and using the Alt key closest to the spacebar as Meta, the key-chords in Emacs are comfortable for me (I just spread out my left hand a little over home-row and I can reach them all w/o moving my hand).
I was a vim user long ago (I learned to program in vim) and constantly hitting esc bothered me more than Emacs Ctrl key gymnastics.