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minus-squareSkye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoHonestly this part of the XKCD meme never sat right with me. No self respecting emacs person would ever bind a command to C-x M-c Meta after Ctrl rubs me the same way languages that use Subject Object Verb order do. Like, you can do it, but it feels icky. Also, you’ve gone to the trouble of creating a ‘butterfly’ key. Just use that.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoNo self respecting person would use Emacs.
minus-squareShareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoSomeone’s feeling that Emacs envy…
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s a lovely OS no doubt, but I just want an editor.
minus-squareShareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago No self respecting emacs person would ever bind a command to C-x M-c A magnetized needle? Perfectly fine. Butterflies causing cosmic rays to precisely flip bits? Don’t see anything wrong with that. A syntactically and ergonomically incorrect Emacs shortcut? Now that’s going too much! Nobody would ever use that instead of M-x butterflies.
C-x M-c M-butterfly
Honestly this part of the XKCD meme never sat right with me. No self respecting emacs person would ever bind a command to C-x M-c
Meta after Ctrl rubs me the same way languages that use Subject Object Verb order do.
Like, you can do it, but it feels icky.
Also, you’ve gone to the trouble of creating a ‘butterfly’ key. Just use that.
No self respecting person would use Emacs.
Someone’s feeling that Emacs envy…
It’s a lovely OS no doubt, but I just want an editor.
A magnetized needle? Perfectly fine.
Butterflies causing cosmic rays to precisely flip bits? Don’t see anything wrong with that.
A syntactically and ergonomically incorrect Emacs shortcut? Now that’s going too much! Nobody would ever use that instead of M-x butterflies.