(Part 2) Best products from r/emacs

+1 on Ultrawide Monitors. I got one of these 34" curved ultrawides and it's amazing for emacs + anything with a tiling window manager. I can fit around 6 columns of text in a single comfortable view. Or just split emacs + chat + browser in a tiling configuration. I miss my ultrawide a lot when I have to use the dual 24" setup at the office (2 emacs split windows, 1 per monitor, with 2 columns each).

This novel was integrally written using Markdown in emacs. Not only that, it's open source and written in GitHub, where you can check the commit log for a writing diary. Continuous integration with Travis was used for spell checking.
Since then, I've written everything, including another novel, using emacs + GitHub. It's just great.

I switched to evil/spacemacs a few years ago when my RSI was worsening to see if it helped. It helped for a short time but then my RSI started coming back. Vim keybindings can also cause RSI.

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However I don't regret learning evil. I really enjoy modal editing. Also, trying out spacemacs exposed me to lots of cool packages I didn't know about before. Though I'm using my own config these days, whenever I'm trying out a new language I usually check the spacemacs config to see what packages are installed there.

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Over the years I've tried various things that have been more or less helpful for RSI:

- Conquering carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive stress injuries

- http://www.workrave.org/

- Voice coding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI, https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea)

- Mind-body prescription (it's a bit wacky, I don't agree with all of it, but I think there's something to it & a lot of people seem to find it helpful)

- Standing desk

- Back massage (https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Tail-Ball-Roller-Corded/dp/B0078PX01G/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=ball+rope+back+massage&qid=1558366141&s=gateway&sr=8-4)

- Exercise

I like my cm to quickfire here I use the brown switches but they are currently out of stock. It has a numpad fused with the arrow keys and you can switch by pressing the numlock button. Since the keys are taller and the keyboard is compact I can hit the C- key with my outer palm which helps reduce pinky strain.

Map the right alt key to control. Then you can do alt with your left thumb and ctrl with the right thumb. It works great.

The only problem is that many keyboards have right alt in a spot that makes it difficult to press easily. You might need to search a bit for a keyboard with a reasonably positioned right alt key. I use a logitech comfort cordless keyboard.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-G430-Headphone-Cable-Sports-Performance/dp/B00CQ35C1Q/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1521492807&sr=8-5&keywords=gaming+headset are a good set of headphones.

I can send you some also.

Sounds like you want a kinesis https://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-KB500USB-BLK-Advantage-Keyboard/dp/B000LVJ9W8

1993 at the University of Oslo computer science lab. Not sure exactly what computer, because they had lots of different ones. Might well be a terminal hooked up to some SunOS server.

I'm also an author, and my book that's coming out next year was 100% written in Emacs. My two previous books, too.

Emacs 24 Reference Manual page 141 "Accessing Compressed Files" http://www.amazon.com/dp/9881327717

Suggested by a veiwer:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D4HTIOY/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

My own question was lazy:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Org-Mode-Reference-Manual/dp/9881327709/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1407248946&sr=8-5&keywords=org+mode

Maybe Adobe Indesign? It may be possible to torture LaTeX into doing stuff like this -- https://www.amazon.com/COCHISE-STRONGHOLD-Rock-Climbing-West/dp/161850102X/ -- but it's not fun.

> My biggest disappointment with macOS is that it's impossible to have a real Hyper key.

Would this work?

I can only confirm with my sample size of 1.

My only physical issue from long, intense editing sessions is pain in my elbows from bad chair arms, or resting too much weight on them, or some such. These days I have a better chair, alternate sit/stand quite a bit and it's been a long time since I've even had that.

Just bought this edition. It's a very attractive book, but VERY large. May not fit on some bookshelves.

https://www.amazon.com/GNU-Emacs-Lisp-Reference-Manual/dp/8866060992

The FSF store seems to be unreliable at the moment, which is too bad.

A couple years ago I got really bad RSI. I ended up pairing for the entirety of a 3 week span because it was painful to even put my hands on a keyboard. This was well after I remapped caps-lock to control, so don't suggest that i do that :)

Needless to say, I was rather motivated to find a solution. I ended up with a foot pedal for the control key. This is the one I ended up buying (it requires a windows PC to set up, but after that works just like a USB keyboard) (it also looks identical to the one you picked out)

I discovered a couple of things in the process:

1. OSX does not allow you to hold down a modifier on one keyboard and press a key on another keyboard. It keeps keyboards separate from each other. You can fix this buy installing keymap4macbook and doing nothing at all with it.
   
2. Switching to a foot pedal was very difficult. I kept using the control key on accident
   
3. The foot pedal helped enormously in letting my RSI heal.
   
4. The foot pedal was way slower than using control.
   
   I don't use the foot pedal anymore, and my RSI has not returned. If it does come back, I'll break out the pedal again.
   
   My problem stemmed from extending my pinky. I have no trouble what-so-ever with hitting the buttons next to the space bar with my thumbs (though I don't use the button on the right hand side)

I use a set of pedals for Ctrl and Super (my xmonad meta key) and it's great. I don't use them all the time but when I'm doing some serious typing and my hands are starting to hurt I switch to using them.

I also have my keyboard set up so that holding space works as ctrl using xcape. This is much easier to use (not to mention more portable) and also helped a lot with the RSI pains I was getting. However it doesn't completely fix the problem: I get thumb pains sometimes when working this way for a long time hence the pedals.

The combination of these things has helped enormously.

edit: I should add, these are the pedals I use. I'm not sure I can recommend them though: one of the three pedals has broken (about 1.5 years old not), cheap though.

I used these instructions to bind them to arbitrary keys. Unfortunately the instructions don't work on newer versions of Ubuntu (and presumably other distros). I think the issue is with DBus having replaced some of the tools needed. I've got about 2/3 of a blog post written explaining how to bind them on modern Ubuntu so let me know if you get stuck.