<story><title>History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)</title><url>http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>Interesting to see the Symbolics keyboard. As an Emacs user I had reprogrammed my ThinkPad keyboard (Windows) so that&lt;p&gt;Alt -&amp;gt; Control&lt;p&gt;Windows-key and Menu Key -&amp;gt; Alt&lt;p&gt;Control keys -&amp;gt; Windows key&lt;p&gt;So without having ever seen a Symbolics keyboard and without knowing the history behind emacs keyboard layout I remapped my keyboard so that I had very quick access to Control and Alt (= Meta) keys.&lt;p&gt;On my Macbook it&amp;#x27;s not that easy. I could remap the Command key to become a Control key, but many Mac shortcuts heavily rely on the Command key. So that&amp;#x27;s no option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>The most important thing that distinguished the Lisp Machine keyboard was that it had dedicated parenthesis keys. According to my sources, that was so you could hold a Hefty bag of nitrous oxide in one hand, and type s-expressions with the other. (Gumby can you verify this? ;) )</text></comment>
<story><title>History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)</title><url>http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>Interesting to see the Symbolics keyboard. As an Emacs user I had reprogrammed my ThinkPad keyboard (Windows) so that&lt;p&gt;Alt -&amp;gt; Control&lt;p&gt;Windows-key and Menu Key -&amp;gt; Alt&lt;p&gt;Control keys -&amp;gt; Windows key&lt;p&gt;So without having ever seen a Symbolics keyboard and without knowing the history behind emacs keyboard layout I remapped my keyboard so that I had very quick access to Control and Alt (= Meta) keys.&lt;p&gt;On my Macbook it&amp;#x27;s not that easy. I could remap the Command key to become a Control key, but many Mac shortcuts heavily rely on the Command key. So that&amp;#x27;s no option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RichardHeart</author><text>You might be able to put &amp;quot;symbolics&amp;quot; keys on your keyboard: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deskthority.net&amp;#x2F;photos-f62&amp;#x2F;round-6-the-cappening-t15386.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deskthority.net&amp;#x2F;photos-f62&amp;#x2F;round-6-the-cappening-t15...&lt;/a&gt; Don&amp;#x27;t make the mistake I did and focus too hard on the tool and not enough on the work :)</text></comment>