From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907011418h164c0d11kc285e4dc874fa4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d15b0939b72b2a96dda32db53d449ab@coraid.com> <639f03b145f3dfa9434cef8538abecf0@bellsouth.net> <20090701221105.fdc6262f.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <7d3530220907011418h164c0d11kc285e4dc874fa4b@mail.gmail.com> From: Felipe Bichued Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:31:33 -0300 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1289785e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 esc is quite useful in sam. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, 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. >> > > 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 =A0"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 > -- > "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 > >