https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2009-11-04T12:04:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2009-11-04T12:04:00+00:002009-11-04T12:04:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2009-11-04:/~alex/blog/2009/11/04/avoiding-rsi-one-keypress-at-a-time/

<p>Much as I love emacs some of the key combinations it expects of you to a) remember b) use are don't help when your trying to ameliorate the effects of RSI. As I spend an lot of time in compilation mode the following quick win helps:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> (define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd &quot;n …</pre>

<p>Much as I love emacs some of the key combinations it expects of you to a) remember b) use are don't help when your trying to ameliorate the effects of RSI. As I spend an lot of time in compilation mode the following quick win helps:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> (define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd &quot;n&quot;) 'compilation-next-error) (define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd &quot;p&quot;) 'compilation-previous-error) </pre> <p>If you try executing (self-insert-command) the buffer would complain it's read-only anyway. I took this single keypress approach to the next level when I was doing a lot of patch merging and <a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/stsquad/my-emacs-stuff/blob/master/my-diff-mode.el">tweaked diff-mode</a> to be a little less multi-finger.</p>