> > On 'minibuffer': I think some of the long delay for me is not knowing the > term 'buffer' in this context and thus following the lazy thinking route, > "huh. that's a nonsensical-to-me word, must not be for me". In my > experience buffering was what you needed to stop your music and videos from > skipping. Maybe it should be called the Command Bar? >
I've seen in this forum and in emacs conversations a call for just such a change, in some cases people have proposed the compromise "Command buffer", but the bar/buffer itself would just say "Command: ". Vim calls it "command-line mode". Sublime Text calls it "command palette". > Had I known this, Leo would likely have started life in emacs... >> > > Well I for one am grateful for your delay in seeing. At one point I tried > to learn emacs, I really did. While I could appreciate it as a cathedral to > visit, working in it was painful -- literally. I was on the border of RSI > and all the chorded keyboard commands made my wrists hurt. So vim won. ;-) > ...and lost later, but that's a different story. > > Matt > I failed to learn emacs a couple of times. I would so sad if somebody wrote off emacs because they felt they had to wear uncomfortable heels to the party, so to say. Trust me, it's not that formal of an event. The spirit of emacs, just as with Leo, is: if it doesn't work you then change it. With both emacs and Leo, that option is given to you when you walk through the door. There are many solutions to the physical interface problem. The simplest is to rebind caps lock to CTRL. Another option is to swap left-ALT and left-CTRL (this configuration is actually what the physical keyboards looked like when emacs was developed, hence why CTRL is used so prominently). This is probably something everyone should do anyway, but it becomes particularly helpful in emacs. If the vim input model worked for you then evil <https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil> provides robust vi bindings. god-mode <https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode> is another solution which puts you into a "command" mode that allows you to enter your commands without pressing CTRL or ALT. Obviously "you gotta want it", which I doubt you do anymore, but just felt I had to do my civic duty. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
