Aquamacs vs. Dvorak-Qwerty layout

I love .  It totally rocks.

However, I use the Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard layout (AKA DQ) and Aquamacs doesn’t like the command key bindings that the DQ layout uses.  DQ is dvorak except when you use the command key.  Then it becomes QWERTY.  This was invaluable when I first started using OS-X since it matched all the docs.

According to the FAQ Aquamacs cannot natively understand the command keys for this layout because it’s a Carbon application, not a Cocoa application.

Fortunately, there is a workaround…

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Google Phone

Robin and I both got Google phones while in New York over the holidays.  She bought a G1 and I ordered the ADP1.

I’ve been working my way through Hello, Android” by Ed Burnette.  So far it’s been decent.  You can get  30% off (till 2009/1/31) using a special code.  I bought the PDF and paper book for less than Barnes and Nobels is selling it down the street.  Good deal, I think.

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