On 7/20/25 3:59 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> On the milder topic of editor preferences, I'm a vi(m) user but employ
> Emacs bindings in readline applications and maintained my own fork of mg
> (microemacs) for a while, to see how the other half lived.  I discovered
> that a much bigger chunk of Emacs advocacy is predicated on its
> "finger-feel"[1]

I think, as I said in another message, that familiarity has a lot to do
with the comfort that people feel. Muscle memory is important.

I would also note that emacs-style key bindings are pervasive -- even on
macOS, where the system's text objects (e.g., what you use in TextEdit)
all have emacs-style key bindings by default, down to things like the
browsers' address bar and search field. Even the Spotlight search bar
uses emacs key bindings. This was all inherited from NeXTOS.

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