CLiki: Editing Lisp Code with EmacsKeyboard tips Use the Standard US keyboard layout. The US keyboard's layout (unlike the western European keyboard layouts) makes typing the punctuation characters you need in programming languages easy. Learn to touch-type. Invest in a quality keyboard. Key Swapping Alt key for Meta, not Escape. Turn Capslock into Control. Here's a complete keyboard layout suggested by a photo of a Lisp Machine ke
