21 Jul
2025
21 Jul
'25
11:01 p.m.
I heard about RMS acquiring RSI of the left wrist, presumably from the ‘ctrl-x’ plus other
keys.
<http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html>
1. Is this a ’thing’ or blown out of proportion?
2. Since Function keys & they were programmable, I gather ‘gun’ emacs users don’t have
the RSI problem. Is this correct?
3. I’ve never heard of people with RSI from using ‘vi’/‘vim’. Is this right?
On 22 Jul 2025, at 05:46, Paul Winalski
<paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My beef with EMACS is that it's too finger-busy. All that ctrl-x prefix business.
I'm not fond of vi either. The only vi command I ever learned was ESC-:q! so that I
could get out of vi if I accidentally got into it. I was involved in developing products
for both Linux and Windows. I did all my text editing on Windows and copied the files to
Linux for building and testing.
I like the joke about EMACS being an acronym for Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift.
-Paul W.
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