I think I’m onto something (another keybinding post)

So I have (macos): - emacs keys, not evil - caps lock mapped to control - left option as meta - left command as super (not sure if I should change this to meta yet) - right command mapped as F7 This looks somewhat sane and I can easily bind the menu key in other keyboards to F7 (or other F key) as well. F7 is a prefix key and I’m using it as something similar to general.el as in “<f7>w” opens a prefix for my windows commands for example (like SPC w in doom or whatever). I wanted to map right command to hyper but that does not play nice with macos terminals. This is looking very nice to me, I honestly was not fully aware I could achieve this as I’m somewhat a beginner. I was using a lot of chords too but I reduced their usage due to some conflicts. They are still pretty awesome to have though (a quick “tt” opens vterm-toggle for example). Does this look sane to you guys? Is it too good to be true?

I map the key on the spacebar's right (Alt on Windows; not sure on Mac) to Control. Then left thumb is for Meta, and right thumb is for Control.

you do you. if you are comfortable with the way your keybinds feel then who can say you are wrong?

You do you. I went down a completely different rabbit hole and I feel ashamed to describe it. Key bindings are like underwear. Everybody got their own, and it's probably not worth doing show and tell.

Yeah this could be an interesting variation to me to try. This is the key I’m talking about, that I mapped to F7

Oh, I missed that at first. I thought you bound F7 to Control, haha.

:-) That was the best description I have seen to date :). Indeed.

Thanks!

Ah no Left command im changing to meta Right command is F7 (i wanted hyper but apparently I don’t know how to make hyper to work as a prefix key) The downside of using command as meta is that terminal emacs will not work properly due to macos limitations

Sounds sane. But almost every mapping seems sane to me. Everyone's needs are different so it's sane if the mapping matches your needs :-) I also have caps lock mapped to control, left option as Meta, left command as Super. In my case, I want command to be mac-style keybindings (so command-C is copy) so I have option for emacs-style keybindings (so option-C is capitalize). I have right command on Alt but I don't use it. I have right option for option so I can type special characters lik ø and ∆. I decided to reclaim Ctrl+digits, so C-0 through C-9 are various commands (including some prefix keys).

Yeah I actually started thinking about reclaiming digits too. What do you do with them if i may ask? As in how do you organize

Since emacs gives me *four* [ways to enter prefix arguments](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Arguments.html) (C-digit, M-digit, C-M-digit, and C-u digit), I decided to reclaim the C-digits for commands that I use often. Window management: - `C-1`: delete-other-windows (`C-x 1`) - `C-2`: split-window-below (`C-x 2`) - `C-3`: split-window-right (`C-x 3`) - `C-0`: winner-undo - `C-9`: rotate-windows (considering changing this, as I don't use it often) Others: - `C-4`: align-regexp (considering making this a prefix for aligning+sorting) - `C-6`: mc/mark-next-like-this (multiple cursors) - `C-8`: prefix command to insert my most commonly used unicode characters Considering binding: - `C-5`: for macros maybe - `C-7`: for some other multiple-cursor command - `C--`: maybe snippets? not sure - `C-=`: dunno - `C-` `: dunno

Nice, thank you!

Gotcha. Yeah, I have trouble with iTerm and Meta on MacOS. I think Hyper is a modifier key (like Control or Meta), so I don't think Hyper can work as a prefix key like F7 can. You can "chain" prefix keys, so I use `C-c c <key>` for misc custom commands and `C-c w <key>` for window management commands.

This is how i started, but i felt like pressing C-c all the time was a bit too much. I can be wrong though, I’m experimenting to see where it leads me, we’ll see

It's not so bad pressing `C-c` all the time; I've gotten very fast at it. Trying different keymaps is a lot of fun for us nerds haha, so keep trying new things!