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I find 'nose' more useful than 'elbow'.

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:07:42 +0100

>>>to research the reasoning and theory behind plan9 and acme? I realize it
> >>is rather different style from traditional UNIX editing as well as the
>>>Emacs style of editing, ...
>>>
>> i'd hope so after all this time. [i said]
>>
>read as "I understand it is easy to be preconditioned
>by confident utilization of UNIX/Emacs style editing
>over long periods of time, but, there is no reason to
>dismiss a new environment without first learning how

no, i meant today must be roughly 20 years later, surely,
if not more.  i'd hope at least the style and ideally the substance
might have changed a bit in these areas.   i realise that
some older things turn out to be the best achievable,
even in computing, and some newer things are
worse than their predecessors.
in this case, however, i can't help thinking that the elapsed time
should provide some opportunity for interesting improvement.

control-meta-shift-elbow!

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