On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:00:01 -0500 > blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: > >> > perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the >> >> That's an interesting observation. As it turns out I >> do play, and it's certainly possible that it colors my >> taste in UIs. >> >> > contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs >> > require to be quite irritating indeed. fumbling for >> >> I don't disagree with you there. > > Me either, I like vi better than emacs simply because it > requires fingertwisting much more rarely. >
Not when Esc is placed waaaay up in the upper left... Of course, in Linux you can rebind the keyboard however you want, and X.org even has a nifty 'Option "ctrl:swapcaps"' thing to stick in xorg.conf for us Emacs users. If only Emacs wasn't tainted with the dirty dirty smell of RMS... I guess there's always Xemacs, which has had a long time to shower off the Stallman. Umm, Plan 9 relevance: I don't have to fingertwist in Plan 9! Actually I can't remember using Esc anywhere, and of course the F[1-12] keys are unused, and a proper terminal boots with the Control key to the left of the 'a', so I've got no complaints. 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
