Post #3379838

@mwichary@mastodon.online the essay reminded of the chords used to move and select and cut, copy and paste using the keyboard. Many years ago I switched to Emacs and used the weird key combos and now it pains me to go back to that other mode that has won everywhere else: shift arrows, control arrows, shift control arrows, ctrl x c v w q f – these used to be in my motor memories and now it’s all about ctrl or meta a b f e k d w q s oh dear lord above help when I try to reformat the paragraph and quit the editor instead, or save instead of search, and on and on. Switching between two such schools of motor patterns seems to be impossible to me.