Developing environments used for kernel development

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

On 24/12/2015 19:43, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Doing something about the keymappings would probably help, as currently a 
> lot of the most common sequences require use of weaker fingers (in
> particular, control-anything beats on your left pinky on most keyboards).
> The problem is that there's no good keys to remap *to* where the first and
> second fingers of either hand can easily reach it (Sorry, F5-F8 are too
> much of a stretch on most hardware).
> 
I remapped caps lock to control and find it very convenient to have a control
key so close to the resting position of my left pinky. OTOH, I'm using vim, so
I'm probably not using ctrl as intensively as a Emacs user.

Manuel.