The following are some testimonial for the Ergonomic Keyboard Shortcut Layout For Emacs.
(9:06:35 AM) laurus: Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I recently installed your Ergoemacs and I'm enjoying it very much.
fadec: I had customized my keybindings but someone suggested I try Ergoemacs a few weeks ago. Forget vim - ergoemacs is how it's done.
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freenode irc chat:
Ghoul``: xah_lee: i appreciate the ergonomic emacs shortcuts especially M-x being M-a right now :) however only one thing is weird.. the M-; for searching (M-s in dvorak) but if i want to go to the next entry i press C-s and not M-; again; that's like the only tiny thing; otherwise i really like and use all the other shortcuts; really good stuff!
freenode irc chat:
ginstre: i'm an avid user of your ergonomic keybindings. one small suggestion: the isearch-mode-map bindings should be copied to the minibuffer-local-isearch-map. otherwise one can't resume an isearch that has been modified (e.g. by M-n, M-p or isearch-edit-string).
From w k
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教程需然全部都是英文书写，但是语法简单、文笔流畅，像我这样纯粹的中国人都可以轻松阅读。
From: Will Parsons
Date: 3 Sep 2008 00:21:16 GMT
Subject: Re: ergonomic keybinding. Need qwerty testers.
Some comments:
I've been giving your keyboard mapping a try and generally like it. In particular, I like the cut/paste series (M-x, M-c, M-v) and the window-splitting series (M-0, M-1, M-2). I do regret, however, that the M-c binding does conflict with the default capitalize-word binding, as I use the capitalization functions bound by default to M-c, M-u, and M-l pretty frequently. At the moment, I've configured a "windows" key to be Hyper and bound the capitalization functions to H-c, H-u, and H-l, so I'll see how that works out.
(I've noticed a slight anomaly - since M-x is bound to kill-region, M-a is used for execute-extended-command, but when one hits M-a, one is still presented with a prompt "M-x ".)
As far as the cursor movement bindings, the single character movement bindings seem natural enough, but I suspect I'll prefer to continue to use arrow keys. I'll have to give the other movement bindings more of trial before making a final judgement, though the combinations involving M+S (Alt+Shift) seem a little awkward to me.
I've bound M-g to goto-line for some time now, and am happy with the standard C-k for kill-line, so prefer not to rebind M-g.
Similarly, I've bound M-p to ps-print-buffer, and since I don't use the recenter function too often, am happy to stick with C-l for it.
I found the binding of M-d to delete-backward-char somewhat disconcerting, because even though I've bound C-delete to kill-word, I'm still acustomed to having M-d perform the same function in other contexts (e.g., in bash).
From gnu.emacs.help newsgroup. Source
Hello,
I've just read your rant about Emacs key bindings and other historical "features".
I simply wanted to thank you for this : now I know I'm not alone thinking about this sort of things. Although I didn't had your historical knowledge about Emacs, these key bindings and features are what has always turned me away from Emacs, and why I coded my own text editor 14 years ago (Jered, available from http://www.librelogiciel.com/ )
So, again : THANKS A LOT !
bye
Jerome Alet
a few weeks ago I saw your page with ergonomic keybindings for emacs. Since I did not like the original bindings very much and was on the way to an "emacs pinky" I tried your keybindings - they are great :)
Pain decays slowly and the new bindings are going into muscle memory quickly. Of cource, I made a few changes according to my special needs.
Thank you VERY much!
Markus Grunwald
I have used your ergonomic_keybinding_querty.el a bit. It is interesting, it looks like it is the right way to go. Solution is elegant and does not interfere with or disable common shortcuts. There are two small issues I encountered: The first is that if CUA is enabled in emacs 22 moving around with page up/down (M-Shift-i and M- Shift-k) sets mark and starts selecting a region. The other issue is that on Windows pressing righ-alt + right-shift sometimes changes Windows keyboard layout.
The main issue for me still remains position of Control keys, but this needs to be addressed by a keyboard manufacturer.
Thanks,
boskom
gnu.emacs.help newsgroup, 2008-04-30. Source
Pretty impressive.
Do you have the frequency of the C-x prefix ? I use it pretty often, just wondering what's his rating. I definitively want to try your layout. Two remarks though. C-h = delete-backward-char is mandatory for me.
Too many applications use it that way. And the h key is a perfect spot on the Dvorak keyboard.
Also, C-t, M-t and M-c on a Dvorak keyboard definitely deserve better shortcuts than the default ones.
I am currently using C-t as the C-x prefix and M-t as M-x.
Sergio // Sep 12, 2007 at 12:06 pm
That's nice, but the best thing about that website is the ‘ergonomic keybord layout’ that uses completely new bindings that are way more comfortable.
I know that for long-time emacs users a new layout is perhaps not something attractive, but for me, being new to emacs, a more modern and ergonomic layout is just what I needed to get up to speed.
They even have a Dvorak version. Great resource, thanks, I had been looking for this kind of info about how to make it easier to use emacs for a while.