From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:23:25 -0700 From: Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian fst@real.com Subject: [9fans] re: emacs jokes Topicbox-Message-UUID: 60a0c8f6-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970830002325.qx6nVAmad4wHgzIFmGEJczs--fJynfu9HW3toTOU0UA@z> 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: >[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 > >