Something I love about emacs is the ability to tab complete the name of a command. I do know a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but I use way, way more commands than I know the shortcut for. Need to rename a buffer? M-x ren-buf TAB should do it. Etc.
setopt 8 hours ago [-]
Me to, but to be fair, I think this is no longer unique to Emacs. See for example the "command palette" in VSCode; it isn’t "tab completion" per se but similar to e.g. M-x with Vertico.
BeetleB 4 hours ago [-]
Probably he's referring to "fuzzy find"?
Yes, VSCode has something similar, I believe. But Emacs had it before VSCode existed ;-)
goodmythical 5 hours ago [-]
I was thinking I was crazy...I use command completion in lots of different applications...
snikeris 3 hours ago [-]
This is cool.
While we're discussing optimizing emacs keybindings...I've found it key to have my bindings set up such that my thumbs operate the control modifier key.
kleiba 2 hours ago [-]
I'm fine with the standard CAPS_LOCK is CTRL setup...
setopt 41 minutes ago [-]
I got a pretty bad case of RSI with that setup, since it encourages one-handed chording (e.g. pressing C-x C-s by holding down your pinkie on Caps Lock while twisting your wrist to tap X then S using other fingers on the same hand). It’s far more ergonomic to do two-handed chording, where you press one key at a time with each hand to the extent possible. For me, that meant using Karabiner Element (Mac) and Keyd (Linux) to map Return to another Ctrl key when held down (in addition to the Caps as Ctrl mapping). Then I can simply hold down Return with my right hand and tap X then S with whatever fingers feel natural on the left hand, without twisting my wrist at all.
BeetleB 5 minutes ago [-]
Indeed. I had RSI issues very early in my career, and the standard advice by ergonomists was "Use both hands when doing any multi-key sequence". If you're doing Ctrl-C, use the right Ctrl button, and so on.
Pay08 1 hours ago [-]
I could never get used to that. I should probably try forcing the issue to see if I can rewire my muscle memory, but I'm afraid that it'll be a problem in places where I don't want caps lock rebound to ctrl.
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lorenzohess 9 hours ago [-]
This looks great. Would there be an easy way to generalize this program to tiling window managers? Maybe initially I can use this by modifying the WM to forward all its keybindings to a dummy Emacs instance. For WMs is the entropy theory also applicable?
Yes, VSCode has something similar, I believe. But Emacs had it before VSCode existed ;-)
While we're discussing optimizing emacs keybindings...I've found it key to have my bindings set up such that my thumbs operate the control modifier key.
currently the calculations in this library are done with a clojure jar, so if you're interested, you might have an easier time calling that directly
I'm trying to switch to Corne keyboards and the key maps are critical.