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mjh Jun 16, 2023

New version of Devil minor mode (v. 0.5.0) available

https://lemmy.world/post/198199

New version of Devil minor mode (v. 0.5.0) available - Lemmy.world

Devil is interesting minor mode for Emacs (not my package). I have been using it for a while and it works very nicely. Earlier I have mapped Caps Lock to control, and Enter to Enter or Control, depending whether it is pressed alone. But Devil-mode offers similar nice, non-modal symmetric touch typing experience, without a need for dynamic keyboard remapping, and using only elisp. The Emacs subreddit had a post about Devil-mode few days ago, so I try to be active and Post here. Hopefully Lemmy will get more active Emacs users and posts, Reddit being now what it is.

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4ffy

I've been using Devil for a little while now. The right control key is pretty far from the home row on my keyboard, so the usual touch typing motions are inconvenient. I feel like Devil, which I have mapped to semicolon, lets me reclaim some of that.

I have caps lock as control as well, so that gives me control access on both sides of the home row. The two sides behave a bit differently since caps lock is an actual modifier, but that hasn't been an issue for me.

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saladfork Jun 17, 2023

Putting it on semicolon is a good idea, that might be less awkward than comma. I'll give that a shot thanks.