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RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'zap zap zap zap ..... BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:06:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 19 April 2006 18:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I remember sitting in an associate's office and commiserating about the
>> *stoopidity* of the whole concept of vi with it's hjkl arrow keys and
>> different modes for input and editing. Now I'm happily ensconced in
>> that mindset. I still understand the allure of emacs, though.
>
> FWIW, it's the only mindset that makes sense for touch-typists. I mean,
> being able to move around the document without taking your fingers off the
> home row -- what can be better? :-)
Being able to move your spaceship out of the way of that last asteroid
before it hits you instead of wondering which the hell of these
non-topographically-laid-out keys is actually going to make you go up rather
than down ?
cheers,
DaveK
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