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I agree that the palm is terrible advice. Ctrl-Z is near impossible with large hands using that method.

The thing that has been saving my pink from emacs is the capslock rebind. it enables me to use my ring finger for the modifier.

edit: I eat my own words. It mentions later in the article never to use a modifier with the same hand as the actual key. Whoops.



On your edit: yeah, using both hands for composite commands is good practice. That way fingers keep in more natural positions.

Still, using the palm for pressing Ctrl is bad. The hand should tend to be kept convex, not concave or flat.




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