Xah Lee, David Capello, Kim Storm, Walter Landry and Matthew Fidler
ErgoEmacs keybindings improve GNU Emacs for people who did not grew up with Emacs. User interface is based on common modern software interface familiar to most people today, such as using 【Ctrl+C】 key for Copy,【Ctrl+Z】 for undo, 【Ctrl+O】 for Open file, and also bundles many Emacs Lisp functions that are not in GNU Emacs by default.
(setq ergoemacs-theme nil)
(setq ergoemacs-keyboard-layout "us")
(require 'ergoemacs-mode)
(ergoemacs-mode 1)If you want to change your bindings, you can define keys in the ergoemacs-user-keymap.
For example, if you want to change C-a you can use the following Emacs customization command:
(define-key ergoemacs-user-keymap (kbd "C-a") 'my-replacement-function)If you wanted this to respect the keyboard layout for some reason, you can use:
(ergoemacs-define-key ergoemacs-user-keymap (kbd "M-i") 'my-other-function)This defines the Alt+i key on QWERTY and Alt+u on colemak.
You can also define keys that are partially layout dependent and partially fixed.
For example if you wanted the ergoemacs-mode key <menu> n t to start
term-mode instead of org-capture, you can define the key as follows:
(ergoemacs-define-key ergoemacs-user-keymap (kbd "<menu> n") 'org-capture (kbd "t"))In QWERTY, this key would be <menu> n t, in Colemak, this key would be <menu> k t
To unbind keys in ergoemacs-mode you can use code like:
(define-key ergoemacs-user-keymap (kbd "C-p") 'undefined)This will unbind the printing interface.
If you want to truly drop the ergoemacs-mode key and use emacs's default you can also remove them from the ergoemacs-mode by:
(define-key ergoemacs-override-keymap (kbd "C-p") nil)This will have C-p be previous line, like it is in emacs.
ergoemacs-mode binds all of its keys in the
emulation-mode-map-alist. As a reference, Emacs looks up keys from
the active keymap following the lisp-like pseudo-code below:
(or (if overriding-terminal-local-map
(find-in overriding-terminal-local-map)
(if overriding-local-map
(find-in overriding-local-map)))
(or (find-in (get-char-property (point) 'keymap))
(find-in-any emulation-mode-map-alists)
(find-in-any minor-mode-overriding-map-alist)
(find-in-any minor-mode-map-alist)
(if (get-text-property (point) 'local-map)
(find-in (get-char-property (point) 'local-map))
(find-in (current-local-map))))
(find-in (current-global-map)))This means that ergoemacs-mode overrides:
- keybindings from minor modes
- keybindings from major modes (which are contained in the
current-local-map)
While this seems useful, many major and minor modes make meaningful
changes in Emacs keybindings. For example gnus binds the default
key of kill-line, that is C-k to gnus-summary-kill-same-subject
and sometimes other functions depending on what part of gnus you are
in. The corresponding key in ergoemacs-mode in the "us" layout is M-g.
If you make changes to the gnus keymap to bind M-g to
gnus-summary-kill-same-subject, Emacs still overrides this key with
whatever ergoemacs-mode has defined in the gnus keymap.
To overcome this there ergoemacs-mode does the following:
- Intercepts the
ergoemacs-modekey forkill-line - Temporarily disables all
ergoemacs-modekeys and adds the original keyC-kto the unread events (and makes sure it isn't recorded) - Emacs then carries out the correct command by processing the unread keys
ergoemacs-modere-enables the keybindings
It will also keep the shift selection active by sending shifted keys if necessary.
If you think this is too much magic, you can turn this off with the variable ergoemacs-mode-send-emacs-keys
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