Using EMacs: The ultimate hacker's text editor. Why on earth does Don Box like this thing?
(via Anarchia)
Always did wonder what everyone saw in this thing. I'm a keyboard freak myself but this thing is *daunting*!
Tried it a few times, but I guess you have to be a real masochist to fall in love with this thing. That is - getting past the big hurdle takes the strength of a marathon runner. How would you feel if all your key bindings in the text editor looked like this:
(M = ALT, C= Control)
| C-f | move forward one character | M-f | move forward one word |
| C-b | move backwards one character | M-b | move backwards one word |
| C-n | move down one line (next line) | C-v | move down one screenful |
| C-p | move up one line (previous line) | M-v | move up one screenful |
| Backspace | delete to the left | M-Backspace | delete word to the left |
| C-d | delete to the right | M-d | delete word to the right |
| C-e | move to end of line | M-e | move to end of paragraph |
| C-a | move to start of line | M-a | move to start of paragraph |
| Key-binding | Function |
|---|---|
| C-right or M-right | move forward one word |
| C-left or M-left | move backwards one word |
| C-up | move up one paragraph |
| C-down | move down one paragraph |
| M-up | --Unbound-- |
| M-down | --Unbound-- |