On Saturday, July 6, 2013 7:40:39 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > The fact that rms has crippling RSI should indicate that > > emacs' ergonomics is not right. > > Kind of a small sample size, don't you think? Hopefully we can kill > this meme that Emacs is somehow worse for your wrists than other text > editors before it goes any further than your one unsupported > assertion.
Not beyond small sample but beyond singleton: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html > * a lot of typing, > * use of modifier keys (ctrl, alt, command, etc) > * movement between the mouse and the keyboard My own experience: The second 2 are the worse culprits. And while emacs is bad on the second, its excellent on the third -- to the extend that you 'live inside emacs,' you dont need the mouse. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
