On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:41:36 -0500, Ruben Safir said: > EMACs might work better if they took LISP out of it and adopted it for a > QWERTY keyboard.... 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). The only *real* fix is to go to a non-querty keyboard. Here's one that looks promising - the "key-cluster" module gives you 3 keys that will sit at a convenient place for your left thumb... https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboard/updates/1929 (Note - I haven't actually bought into that one, just an example of what would be needed. There's a lot of even more extreme ergonomic keyboards that would also be plausible. But few people want to drop $250-$400 just to make Emacs more usable.) As far as taking elisp out - Nope. Complete non-starter, because the reason that Emacs is powerful is because you can use elisp to configure, and more importantly extend, the editor. For instance, look at this collection of Emacs interfaces to Git: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git and remember that *all* of those are almost certainly written in 100% elisp.
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