devil VS at-home-modifier-evdev

They all use evil-mode for Vim emulation. So it's just their choice of defaults and configuration style that sets them apart. Doom might have a slight edge with a focus on performance.

Evil-mode is not the only way. There are other approaches like devil you might want to check out.

    https://susam.github.io/devil/

> in particular, due to use of emacs

I use Emacs too full-time (at work as well as at home). I use the ctrl key on both sides of the keyboard. Say, if I'm typing C-a (i.e., ctrl+a), I hold down 'ctrl' with the right little finger and 'a' with the left little finger. Similarly, if I'm typing C-k, I hold down 'ctrl' with the left little finger and 'k' with the right little finger. I touch type and any touch typing lesson teaches us how we always both hands to type shift+something. The same lessons can be applied to the ctrl key as well. Never had any problem using Emacs like this.

However there are some laptop keyboards which do not have the right ctrl key and that makes good typing habits really difficult when the 'ctrl' key is involved. That led me to write a minor mode to make Emacs a better experience for me on such keyboards without having to resort to a modal editing mode like God mode or Evil mode. My non-modal editing mode is called the Devil mode: <https://susam.github.io/devil/>.

Since I've never suffered from RSI due to Emacs usage, it makes me very curious about what the actual contributing factors are that causes some Emacs users to get RSI. Is it the large number of hours spent with Emacs? Is it poor typing habits? Poor keyboards?

These days there is also devil-mode: https://susam.github.io/devil/

Hmm...maybe this Devil Mode would be useful. I would probably choose something other than a comma - - there might be something on the software keyboard that I rarely use.

For the past couple years, I've been using this hacked version of xf86-input-evdev (by Teika Kazura), which allows the use of a space bar for the space and as a "control" modifier if held: https://github.com/lambdaloop/at-home-modifier-evdev

I made a small modification so that if the space key is pressed shortly after a regular character, it just inserts a space immediately. This makes typing feel more natural, with spaces inserted as usual.

I like this better than using the comma as a modifier, as the space bar is nicely positioned on the keyboard to take advantage of your thumbs already.