I switched off of Emacs a bunch of years back after most of the vendors moved the meta key into an awkward position. But after a few days pair programming with a proficient Emacs user, it's clear that I'm going to have to dust off the old muscle memory. What finally pushed me over the edge was watching his Emacs do a CVS history of a file, with each line color coded by age, and stamped with the last author and edit date. I'm not aware of a way to do that with vi/vim.
Oh yeah, and I hear there's an editor buried in there somewhere. {grin}
On a practical note, if you haven't hacked emacs in a while, the newer X11 goodies are nice, and the customization guides can help with almost all useful tweaks now. Very little
Re:get a better keyboard!
dws on 2004-04-09T00:06:50
One of the developers here has a Kinesis. I'll give it a try, but have to admit that certain parts of my anatomy retract at the thought.Re:get a better keyboard!
lachoy on 2004-04-09T01:47:56
It takes a while to get used to it (give yourself a few days), but once you're acclimated it's amazing. The only problem with the keyboard is it's really bad for gaming, if you're into that sort of thing.
