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In article <fstx.728089567@meryl> fstx@meryl.csd.uu.se (Fredrik Stax{ng) writes:
>I get the impression that your keyboard only has one control key. Do you
>think it might help if you had two, like on the 102-key IBM PC keyboard?

The problem is that both of those control keys are in totally useless
places.  That's one of the ways I injured myself.  Stretching my hand
in awkward ways to get the Ctrl and Alt keys at the bottom of the
keyboard caused all sorts of problems.  The pain didn't start to go
away until I stopped using that keyboard.  At work, where I use an HP
keyboard, I remapped the `caps' (which is situated to the left of the
control key, adjacent to home row) key to be a meta key, and that has
made a world of difference.  I used to think it was stupid for there
to be a caps key to the left of the control key, but now I'm grateful
for it.

Here's the xmodmap sequence for hp9000s.  If you really want a caps
lock key (you must be out of your mind), you can map it somewhere
else, like maybe the STOP key.  Anyway, this seems to work with all of
the series I've used regardless of the OS (300, 700, and 800):

! Make Caps key act as Meta.  First remove Meta_R from it's previous key.
! I have no idea why this is necessary, but it's the only way to make it
! work.  I just assign it some random binding, like Shift_R.
keycode 10 = Shift_R
remove mod1 = Meta_R
keycode 55 = Meta_R
add mod1 = Meta_R