On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:18:24 -0700 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. There are a lot of dirty smells in the software world these days. :/ At least RMS hasn't grown fat on BSD code & tried to pass it off as his own copyright patent work. > > 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. I find mouse chording quite 'twisting'. :/ > > 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 > -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
