For the most part, I have not suffered from RSI. However, I'm a hardcore emacs user, which means holding down the control key much of the time I'm typing. The first step I took in dealing with this was to put the control key where it should be (where most keyboards put the caps lock key), but that only helped to a point. The only complete solution I've found to emacs pinky is to use a keyboard where the control key is activated by the thumb.
The only keyboard I know of that offers this is the Kinesis ergonomic keyboard. Kinesis makes many claims about the ergonomic qualities of their keyboards, but the only things about them I care about are:
1) My left pinky doesn't hurt anymore. My thumbs seem more resilient.
2) My right wrist doesn't hurt from twisting to reach the backspace key.
Ergonomics are a very personalized thing. I had specific ergonomics issues that the Kinesis keyboard solved. I'm sure that other people have found adequate solutions to completely different sets of problems. The key to solving the problems though is to actually figure out what is causing the pain and find a different way of doing things.
I struggled for a long time with documentation formats for Onyx, and also eventually settled on the combination of latex, pdflatex, and latex2html. Using these programs, I was able to generate documentation in PostScript, PDF, and HTML, without feeling like compromises had been made for any of the three formats. Setting up the document infrastructure was a painful process, but the results are IMO very nice.
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For the most part, I have not suffered from RSI. However, I'm a hardcore emacs user, which means holding down the control key much of the time I'm typing. The first step I took in dealing with this was to put the control key where it should be (where most keyboards put the caps lock key), but that only helped to a point. The only complete solution I've found to emacs pinky is to use a keyboard where the control key is activated by the thumb.
The only keyboard I know of that offers this is the Kinesis ergonomic keyboard. Kinesis makes many claims about the ergonomic qualities of their keyboards, but the only things about them I care about are:
1) My left pinky doesn't hurt anymore. My thumbs seem more resilient.
2) My right wrist doesn't hurt from twisting to reach the backspace key.
Ergonomics are a very personalized thing. I had specific ergonomics issues that the Kinesis keyboard solved. I'm sure that other people have found adequate solutions to completely different sets of problems. The key to solving the problems though is to actually figure out what is causing the pain and find a different way of doing things.
I struggled for a long time with documentation formats for Onyx, and also eventually settled on the combination of latex, pdflatex, and latex2html. Using these programs, I was able to generate documentation in PostScript, PDF, and HTML, without feeling like compromises had been made for any of the three formats. Setting up the document infrastructure was a painful process, but the results are IMO very nice.