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This may have less to do with emacs and more to do with keyboard layout.
Unfortunately, in the last 20 years, I've only seen one (1) intelligent
keyboard layout, and that was on the symbolics lisp machines. I now use
a sun-4 keyboard, and have managed to map the keys similarly, and find
my hands are much less tired working 8-10 hour days than even a couple
hours on my home mac!

What the symbolics did was

a) recognize and control and meta were SHIFT type keys, and moved them
near the shift key, on BOTH sides of the keyboard. Control straddled the
space bar, and meta was just outbound of that.

b) moved the delete key from the upper right corner to the left of the
"A" key, where it can be hit more frequently with less pain and
suffering.

c) made outbound keys that were not in the normal touch typeist's reach
larger, so they were easier targets. Your finger is less accurate the
further it must travel from the home row, so making the targets larger
made them esier to hit without looking. E.g. virtually all of the
important funciton keys, the rubout key, the control key (so it's just
like the space key), etc.

d) integrated a palm rest into the keyboard.

I'd willingly pay real money to get this keyboard on my sun or mac if
there are any keyboard vendors (or Symbolics) listening...