[Rails] Preferred Ruby Editor/IDE for OS X?

Rob Biedenharn
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:51:04 -0000

Alex,
You must not have learned enough key bindings while you used
emacs.  I''m often hitting the FOUR-fingered M-C-| (that''s
Alt-Ctrl-Shift-vertical-bar) when editing Perl code. ;-)

BTW, how can you identify the keyboard of an emacs user?




(the control key is worn out)


-Rob  (20+ years with emacs and going strong!)

At 1/27/2006 01:30 PM, you wrote:
>Excellent story Alex !  Jotting this one down for future flame wars.
>J/k of course :)
>
>
>On 1/27/06, Alex Young <<mailto:alex@blackkettle.org>
>alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>Dylan Stamat wrote:
> > lol... i would honestly recommend either emacs or vim... you can use
> > them anywhere.
>When I first started using serious text editors (about ''97, I
think), i
>quickly turned into a happy emacs zealot.  Then my wrists started
>complaining *painfully* at the three-finger salutes it requires.  I
>tried new keyboards, different key-mappings, the works.  Then I switched
>to vim, out of desperation as much as anything else.
>
>Now, I am a happy vim zealot :-)
>
>--
>Alex
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