[OT] Text Editor vs IDE aka ctrl-s froze VI

[Levi Pearson]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>
> I've heard this before, but honestly, how do you get anything done  
> when your hands are tied to home row?  I don't know of any pianists  
> that prefer a single octave. ;-)  I like to use as much of the  
> keyboard as I can.

It'd be hard to use vi without using more than the home row!  You'd  
have to remap everything to weird key chords, and you'd be even worse  
off chord-wise than you'd be in emacs.  I thought the absence of key  
chords was one of the major selling points of vi these days.

Given the key chording nature of emacs, I wonder if there's any  
correlation between being trained to play the piano and a preference  
for emacs over vim.  Probably nothing significant, but it'd be  
interesting to see.

         --Levi