From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:47:29 +0200 Message-ID: <48D90F91.4010308@gmail.com> References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <87ljxoffs6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> <2868c8db-ff02-4d67-9e80-4cf323086ca3@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <3bd3a963-a71c-4754-94e9-3a93cdc0cdf7@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222184889 23547 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2008 15:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Lee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 17:49:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiA8P-0004fG-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:49:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiA7N-0002ZM-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiA75-0002Z4-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiA73-0002Yc-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53787 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiA73-0002YZ-Nd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:52878) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiA72-0006hJ-WC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:62845 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KiA70-0005DA-9B; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:47:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080923-0, 2008-09-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KiA70-0005DA-9B. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KiA70-0005DA-9B 46a7aaba4c79d477c64ebaea6ef2bf3e X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57962 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > On Sep 22, 7:50 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> This is what Alex has written there: >> >> RepeatedStrainInjury – saw a doctor, started physiotherapy on >> 2002-02-05. I bought a Kinesis keyboard. I used little programs that >> forced me to take a lot of breaks. It didn’t help. >> >> Note that the Kinesis keyboard and the other things did not help (or >> perhaps was not enough) for Alex! He continues >> >> I stopped therapy >> 2002-10-21 and decided to work less, get up more often, started >> practicing Aikido, and no longer work in long shifts. That helped. >> >> More psyical exercise, less sitting computer work -- that was what Alex >> believed helped. >> >> And that is what I think is the right way to avoid problems. > > of course, the best way to stop Repeated Strain Injury is to stop or > lessen the activity that caused it. This applies to typing, tennis > elbow, guitar fingers, piano wrist, for examples. Xah, aren't you totally missing the main point? I think the main point is doing more physical activities. There is actually nothing that says that only stopping the activity itself helps.