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Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2009 14:18:24 -0700
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From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wr=
ote:
> 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. =C2=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. =C2=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.
>

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.

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.

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.

John
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