begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:10:03PM -0800: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:43:28PM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > >On Feb 1, 2008 12:40 PM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Vi is the real programmer's tool of choice. What's best at this point is > >>to > >>go lay down until that Emacs feeling goes away... > > > >"That emacs feeling" is wrist cramps from all those C- and M- > >combinations, right? :)
I think we need keyboards with foot-pedal attachments, just for the modifier keys. > I've been doing fairly well with emacs viper-mode. At least it has kept me > from getting cramped wrists like I normally do with Emacs. > > I think it's a good example of how one person can be both brillian and > stupid at the same time. Richard had a wonderful idea for a useful and > powerful editor. And then implemented it with an incredibly clumsy user > experience. I thought emacs was an attempt to provide a better UI for an amazingly powerful editor. I have never used TECO. -- Instead of terrible rhymes Poor blank verse will do. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
