[9fans] re: emacs jokes

[Clint Olsen olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu]

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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 03:22:33 GMT, quanstro@infomkt.ibm.COM
<quanstro@infomkt.ibm.COM> wrote:
>>the emacs user is there because there's nothing else he can do: both his
>>hands are in splints because of carpal tunnel syndrome.
>
>hey! not funny. once upon a time, in my infinite stupidity, or maybe to
>prove that i was just as masochistic as the rest of them, i used emacs ---
>until god punished me with "emacs pinkies" (tendonitis to all you tennis
>players) for my sins. this was long before sam, and lacking better options
>(i think that pi was the only other contender), i switched to vi. that is,
>i traded sore wrists for lots of extranious "i"s floating about my text.

Perhaps if emacs had foot pedals it wouldn't be so painful to use.

-Clint