heresy!!!
I'm joking. VI is a useful tool too.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Isaac Freeman memotype@gmail.com wrote:
As a long time user of vim, I gave emacs a good month trial and quickly experienced the fatigue you spoke of, with little to no improvement in my productivity. Vi has a bad rep when it comes to editing lisp style code, but modern vi clones (especially vim) have come a long way. Viper is nice, but it doesn't have all the features of something like vim.
Anyways, I'm by no means trying to start an editor war, but I think a close look at vim is at least worth it if you are suffering from escape-meta-alt-control-shift fatigue. Some good links on editing lisp and/or scheme can be found with google, but here are some anyways:
http://cybertiggyr.com/15-vim/
http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2219
Anyways, as you can see, coding scheme in vim doesn't have to be the nightmare many people think it is.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:06 AM, David St-Hilaire sthilaid@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
Hi all!
I believe I've recently fallen victim to the infamous 'Emacs pinky' sickness (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky)... :(
I made several changes to my working environment in hope to remedy the situation, such as swaping ctl and alt. I also am trying to learn to press control keys with one hand and the other combo key with the other thus using both controls and alt keys. I'll go check today if I can find an ergonomic keyboard too.
Does anyone have some other ideas/tips for improving the situation? Using vi is my last resort option as I am really familiar with emacs and love it alot...
Thanks!
David
PS: I am pasting here the changes I made in hope they might get usefull to others that may want to avoid this problem...
~/.swapCtlAlt.xmodmap keycode 37 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 64 = Control_L keycode 108 = Control_R keycode 105 = Alt_R Meta_R clear Control clear Mod1 add Control = Control_L Control_R add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
~/.bashrc xmodmap .swapCtlAlt.xmodmap
~/.emacs: (global-set-key (kbd "1") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?!))) (global-set-key (kbd "2") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?@))) (global-set-key (kbd "3") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?#))) (global-set-key (kbd "4") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?$))) (global-set-key (kbd "5") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?%))) (global-set-key (kbd "6") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?^))) (global-set-key (kbd "7") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?&))) (global-set-key (kbd "8") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?*))) (global-set-key (kbd "9") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?())) (global-set-key (kbd "0") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?))))
(global-set-key (kbd "!") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?1))) (global-set-key (kbd "@") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?2))) (global-set-key (kbd "#") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?3))) (global-set-key (kbd "$") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?4))) (global-set-key (kbd "%") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?5))) (global-set-key (kbd "^") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?6))) (global-set-key (kbd "&") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?7))) (global-set-key (kbd "*") (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?8))) (global-set-key [?(] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?9))) (global-set-key [?)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?0)))
~/.../paredit.el (progn (setq paredit-commands `( "Basic Insertion Commands" ("9" paredit-open-round ("(a b |c d)" "(a b (|) c d)") ("(foo "bar |baz" quux)" "(foo "bar (|baz" quux)")) ("0" paredit-close-round ("(a b |c )" "(a b c)|") ("; Hello,| world!" "; Hello,)| world!")) ... "Depth-Changing Commands" ("M-9" paredit-wrap-round ("(foo |bar baz)" "(foo (|bar) baz)")) ... "Barfage & Slurpage" (("C-0" "C-<right>") paredit-forward-slurp-sexp ("(foo (bar |baz) quux zot)" "(foo (bar |baz quux) zot)") ("(a b ((c| d)) e f)" "(a b ((c| d) e) f)")) )) nil) _______________________________________________ Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
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