On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:57:16AM -0500, Mark Schoonover wrote:
This is something I think I just had to do - learning Emacs was just taking way too much time, plus it was very difficult to keep holding down the C and M keys. Maybe it's the fact I use a Dvorak keyboard, I don't know.
Pain in my left hand was my main reason for switching away from emacs a few years ago. I've kind of switched back, but I mostly run Emacs in viper mode, which is largely vi like (not vim like). Most of the extended functionality vim provides over vi is available in emacs, but done differently. There is also a _lot_ more stuff available. I'm kind of curious about your experiences with vim with a dvorak keyboard. I learned dvorak a while back, but both emasc and vim keystrokes are so burned into my motor memory that I just can't seem to do anything in them when set to dvorak. My experience, especially with vim, is that I seem to mostly make random, and often destructive, changes to my documents. :-) I guess some people have that as their normal experience with vi. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
