On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:58 PM, David Leimbach<leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >> >> Arguing about mouse vs keyboard misses the point. >> I'm very happy with acme's use of the mouse, but >> acme's power comes from the rest of its design. >> >> Russ >> > > Even in Emacs, I use the mouse because pointing the insertion point or > cursor or whatever to where I need to type next is *much* faster than many > repetitions of a keypress a lot of the time. > Sometimes I do only need to travel up or down one line at a time though, and > then the mouse seems like a waste of time to grab, so I just ctrl-n or > ctrl-p in Emacs to get there (yes I don't use arrows unless I have to, and > no this didn't feel natural for a long time). > I suspect there's no perfect editor interface available. All of them beat > editing crap on my iPhone :-) > Dave
I have a weird love-hate relationship with keybindings in Emacs. That is, I wish they were slightly more Unix-ized instead of whatever arbitrary junk they decided on back in the ITS days. Ctrl-U should delete from your cursor to the start of the line, and Ctrl-H should do a backspace, not open Help! The ^H problem is especially annoying on my Slackware box, where I apparently can't hit the Backspace key in console-mode Emacs or else I'll open the help window. Still, emacs makes for a decent dev environment (it's where I write most of my Unix code) and if I ever got motivated enough, it's nice that it has a fully-featured Lisp environment for extending stuff. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
