Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:58 PM, David Leimbach<leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
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>> Arguing about mouse vs keyboard misses the point.
>> I'm very happy with acme's use of the mouse, but
>> acme's power comes from the rest of its design.
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>> Russ
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> Even in Emacs, I use the mouse because pointing the insertion point or
> cursor or whatever to where I need to type next is *much* faster than many
> repetitions of a keypress a lot of the time.
> Sometimes I do only need to travel up or down one line at a time though, and
> then the mouse seems like a waste of time to grab, so I just ctrl-n or
> ctrl-p in Emacs to get there (yes I don't use arrows unless I have to, and
> no this didn't feel natural for a long time).
> I suspect there's no perfect editor interface available.  All of them beat
> editing crap on my iPhone :-)
> Dave

I have a weird love-hate relationship with keybindings in Emacs. That
is, I wish they were slightly more Unix-ized instead of whatever
arbitrary junk they decided on back in the ITS days. Ctrl-U should
delete from your cursor to the start of the line, and Ctrl-H should do
a backspace, not open Help! The ^H problem is especially annoying on
my Slackware box, where I apparently can't hit the Backspace key in
console-mode Emacs or else I'll open the help window. Still, emacs
makes for a decent dev environment (it's where I write most of my Unix
code) and if I ever got motivated enough, it's nice that it has a
fully-featured Lisp environment for extending stuff.


John
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