esc is quite useful in sam.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, John Floren<slawmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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