[TUHS] End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference)

[John Cowan]

Muscle memory is 100% of why I continue to edit in ex.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 10:12 AM Chet Ramey via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>
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