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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?)
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) |
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Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:59:29 +0900 |
David Kastrup writes:
> What _should_ be making us think about our priorities is when we lose
> the input of heavy Emacs users like RMS, Ben Wing, Nix, to Repetitive
> Strain Injury, and it appears like users of other editors are not
> affected to a similar degree.
Ben wasn't RSI (the disease affected all of his joints) although the
end effect was very similar. As for those three examples, I suspect
the controlling factor is that they can write code faster than even
Emacs can help them type it. I haven't met the other two, but I've
watched Ben work, and his runs of non-stop typing run to minutes, as
if he was a court stenographer trying to keep up with the Devil and
Daniel Webster.[1]
But I think the important point is the one that Lennart made: Emacs's
editing primitives and editor construction language are the important
thing, and the default keymaps are just a way for the community to
standardize things like tutorials and organize new addition to the set
of key-bound commands. It's a shame that there isn't a powerful
facility for theming keymaps.
Footnotes:
[1] American folklore -- Daniel Webster was a lawyer who argued Satan
to a standstill when he came to collect on a sold soul deal. It took
a while. :-)
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], (continued)
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Sivaram Neelakantan, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), David Kastrup, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Sven Axelsson, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Tom, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), chad, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Tom, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?),
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Xue Fuqiao, 2014/01/19
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/19
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/19
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Phillip Lord, 2014/01/20
- New tutorial (was: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]), Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/20
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/20
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Glenn Morris, 2014/01/20
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/20
- New tutorial (was: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]), Phillip Lord, 2014/01/21
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Phillip Lord, 2014/01/21