Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)

• devil

  10 149 8.2 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs minor mode that intercepts and translates keystrokes to provide a modifier-free non-modal editing experience

> 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?

• PowerToys

  713 104,324 9.8 C#

  Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  

Windows power toys has a kb remapper https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

• WorkOS

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