Hacker News Reader

Comment by ripe | Hacker News Reader

Love the idea! Gotta try it, to give my poor Emacs pinky a rest.

I also like the audacious stealing of a common key like COMMA.

You might also find https://web.archive.org/web/20130512065149/http://www.andong... interesting. The theory is that since you only ever have a space after a comma, you can use it as a dead key, and just have ", " output ", ". That then frees all the other letter combos to be whatever key you want.

There are other keyboard layouts out there with the same concept too: https://github.com/workman-layout/Workman/tree/master/mac#wo...

Mode-specific comma key actions are something I never knew I wanted coming from other editors.

Remap Caps Lock to Ctrl.

Do you not use your pinky to hit the caps lock key?

The Caps Lock key sits a few millimeters away from where my pinky rests on the home row. The Ctrl key is a full inch away.

As described in the Devil manual, you can make the semicolon the active key instead of the comma--you don't even have to leave the home row to trigger commands.

YES, BUT IT MAKES IT HARD TO YELL AT PEOPLE, AND THAT'S HOW I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME.

I am not quite sure what this says about me but I LMAO looking at this one, thanks

I have an additional Ctrl on the CapsLock key, and use Both Shift keys to toggle Caps Lock mode - best of both worlds!

     setxkbmap -option shift:both_capslock -option compose:rctrl-altgr -option ctrl:nocaps  -option lv3:ralt_switch

this is the way

Spacemacs for the rescue.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com