From: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@...>
Date: 2004-12-22T23:55:53+09:00
Subject: Re: OT:  vi useability question

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:27:04AM +0900, Hans Fugal wrote:
> Roeland Moors wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> >
> >>Hello ruby-talk,
> >>
> >>i played a little bit with VI because i plan to add a compatibility
> >>mode to ArachnoRuby and i found that returning from input to command
> >>mode with escape breaks the VI rule of leaving your hands on the
> >>keyboard.
> >>
> >>I found that Control-I would be much better (and easy to remember)
> >>then escape.
> >>
> >>Is this just my personal problem or do others feel the same ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >For me the <esc> is very easy to type on my notebook keyboard,
> >but I have always trouble finding the <ctrl>. It's a small button
> >between <fn> and the windows button. Very annoying, so I try to
> >avoid that button.
> >
> 
> So remap caps to ctrl. caps is not only mostly useless, it's much bigger 
> than it should be on most laptop keyboards, but it makes a great ctrl.
> 

I'm already using the caps as normal shift :-)
The shift is also small and I have to use it a lot. I have an
azerty keyboard and this means I have to use shift to type
numbers and ?./+*%>...

But it's not a problem because I don't need ctrl that much.

-- 
Roeland