[9fans] re: emacs jokes

[Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian fst@real.com]

Are you thinking foot pedal or movable foot-attachment-thingy? What would
you call it?  The POSSUM? Hum... Microsoft possum... Logitech possum...

A Possum protocol!?

At 01:58 PM 8/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
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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
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