The other day I had the idea to do what I suspect, is a weird thing. I wanted to bind keys to other key’s characters in Emacs. This led me on an interesting journey through the Emacs source code until I finally found a solution. But Why I’m a software developer, so I hit a lot of keys. One of the reasons I love Emacs (+evil) is that it allows me to minimize the amount of keys I need to press to complete common actions throughout the day. I have hand problems (not related to Emacs, I swear). This means I sometimes go to extreme lengths to remove key presses for common actions, especially those involving pinky usage. It recently occurred to me that, during my day, I type *, (, ) and " far more often than their “unshifted” counterparts, or at least I do when typing code or documentation.