Re: emacs-w3m question

[Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>]

2008-11-06

On Nov 4, 11:25 pm, Xavier Maillard <x...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Like Chris told, I do not like to leave the "home keys" when
> typing. My fingers know where to go with few movements and by
> trying to decrease the risk to get a RSI. That's what matter the
> most for me. I do not type with my 10 fingers but only 6 and I
> feel very comfortable like that.

you don't touch type?

really, you should learn touch type.

it pisses me when programers don't touch type.

it is bizarre that these tech geekers get hotheaded in geeking forums
about what keybindings should or should not be.

like, i spent years thought about issues, such as modernization of
emacs's interface, its keyboard shortcuts, its terminology ... then
when i expressed these opinions thru detailed essays of few thousand
words each, with examples, photos, reference sources, a throng of tech
geekers think i'm a troll or my opinions are absolutely stupid ...

in the past year, i changed my newsgroup behavior so that i actually
try to reply to every message, then i came to realize thru
individualistic discussions, that they never used Windows, never used
Mac, which together are some 96% of world's computers emacs runs on,
but they insist that emacs UI should be this or that. They don't touch
type, but insist emacs keybindings should be this or that, none of
them actually have basic knowledge in the field of user interface or
human machine interface ... all you hear them say is basically “emacs
should not dumb down” (whatever that means) or “emacs is not
MicrosoftWord” (What the motherfuck is Microsoft?).

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y'know, it's weired, when u work in a day job, and sometimes you go
over with colleagues and noticed that they dont touch type, you try
very hard to pretend that you noticed nothing, and you wanted to laugh
out loud with gasps, but can't.

in fact, thinking about this from my personal experience of on and off
working in the IT industry as day jobs since 1995, _majority_ of
professional programers don't touch type. Thinking about it, it's
quite ridiculous.

A programer celebrity, Steve Yegge (author of js2 javascript mode),
recently pulled his windpipe on programers who don't know how to touch
type. Check it out:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html

that thing is what, 10 thousand words? LOL. He's more verbose than me.

Who are you Xavier Maillard? I assume you are a emacs developer, and i
think you probably used emacs for 5 or 10 or more years?

if you are so inclined, let's meet in Second Life. I'm Xah Toll
inworld.

Best,

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄