<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I heard about RMS acquiring RSI of the left wrist, presumably from the ‘ctrl-x’ plus other keys.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html">http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div>1. Is this a ’thing’ or blown out of proportion?</div><div><br></div><div>2. Since Function keys & they were programmable, I gather ‘gun’ emacs users don’t have the RSI problem. Is this correct?</div><div><br></div><div>3. I’ve never heard of people with RSI from using ‘vi’/‘vim’. Is this right?<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 22 Jul 2025, at 05:46, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>My beef with EMACS is that it's too finger-busy. All that ctrl-x prefix business. I'm not fond of vi either. The only vi command I ever learned was ESC-:q! so that I could get out of vi if I accidentally got into it. I was involved in developing products for both Linux and Windows. I did all my text editing on Windows and copied the files to Linux for building and testing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I like the joke about EMACS being an acronym for Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift.</div><div><br></div><div>-Paul W.<br></div></div>
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