From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:58:39 -0700 From: Clint Olsen olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu Subject: [9fans] re: emacs jokes Topicbox-Message-UUID: 609c7dc8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970829205839.fgLaMgXQFCY2Tfsl_zuE709OdEAOC6FEmgwUDvtU550@z> [This message has also been posted.] On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 03:22:33 GMT, 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