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They’re indulging in their secret vim addiction they picked up after someone convinced them to try evil-mode.
DOOM Emacs ruined me. I love it.
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
Many Unix workstations (and also home computers like the Amiga) keyboards placed the Ctrl key to the left of the letter A, and the ⇪ Caps Lock key in the bottom left.
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:
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps"And:
# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration # service keyboard-setup restartThat’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.
