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@susam susam released this 07 May 09:33
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This is the first release of Devil, an Emacs minor mode I wrote for myself a few years ago to help me avoid the use of the ctrl key while typing vanilla Emacs key sequences. This is especially helpful on Macbook keyboards which do not have a right ctrl key and as a result forces us to type key combinations like C-w, C-a, C-s, C-x, etc. using two fingers from the left hand, a pretty bad practice if you care about touch typing. The translation rules that come with this mode liberates us from the need to type the ctrl key altogether.

By default, Devil makes the outrageous choice of replacing the usage of the ctrl key with the comma key (,). It sounds like cause for trouble but this whimsical idea actually works pretty well in practice, at least for me! If you don't like this default choice, you can change the default key to something more reasonable by setting the devil-key variable. See the README at https://github.com/susam/devil to find out more about Devil and how to customise it.