@hmelman@abmurrow This. Caps lock shouldn't exist anyway. I was shocked when my son told me they were taught to use caps lock in typing lessons at school. Shift is much faster.
@hmelman@abmurrow At least 25 years for me and I haven't even done that, with no RSI or any other problems. I'm half convinced it's mainly a matter of how ergonomic your keyboard is overall, not an #emacs thing at all
@abmurrow The solution for me was to move to keyboard that leans heavily on thumb use. There are several, and my favorite is the Kinesis Advantage series.
It's an expensive way to solve the problem, but with or without Emacs, I've found it's just better, so I have zero regrets. But yes, while I love it, Emacs seems to require some form of mitigation.
@deong@abmurrow I have done this too. A keyboard with "home row modifiers" is fantastic, and is the only way I can deal with the awful non-#emacs app interfaces I have to use.
@howard@deong@abmurrow FWIW I have only ever remapped control to caps lock and have never had any problems with emacs-pinky in all the years I've been using it.
For clarity, this isn't nerd sniping, I am genuinely impressed by Emacs and I'm kind of open to seeing what easy and non-insane things I could do to make it usable as an editor. Doom emacs and Evil look good, but I'm still a little worried about the default CTRL and META keys.
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