From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:08:33 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090701230833.52de18eb.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907011418h164c0d11kc285e4dc874fa4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d15b0939b72b2a96dda32db53d449ab@coraid.com> <639f03b145f3dfa9434cef8538abecf0@bellsouth.net> <20090701221105.fdc6262f.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <7d3530220907011418h164c0d11kc285e4dc874fa4b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 12a79c3a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:18:24 -0700 John Floren wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis = wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:00:01 -0500 > > blstuart@bellsouth.net wrote: > > > >> > perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the > >> > >> That's an interesting observation. =A0As 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. =A0fumbling for > >> > >> I don't disagree with you there. > > > > Me either, I like vi better than emacs simply because it > > requires fingertwisting much more rarely. > > >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 lea= st RMS hasn't grown fat on BSD code & tried to pass it off as his own copyr= ight patent work. >=20 > 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'. :/ >=20 > John > --=20 > "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 >=20 --=20 Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.