well I guess I can tune my bike to fit me too, within limits. This principle of limitations is why I can't tune my wife's tiny bike to fit me ( without cutting metal and welding it together again I guess)
Coming from Windows, ctrl+c to exit a program wasn't all that common (cli wasn't all that common for the most part). alt-f4 was the way to go if using the keyboard, so ctrl+c wasn't baked into muscle memory.
Also, if people first tried vi rather than vim... does vi have that help text?
Another confusing one when starting out was entering the 'help' area by accident. "How do I get back out? Argh! So arcane!". I'm quite happy with vim now, but there was definitely a learning curve.
Sure, now, but back in the dark ages of 1992, basically nobody at my university had heard of vim, so we just got vi, which didn't have such a helpful prompt. After entering vi, I spent about 15 minutes alternately trying to do anything useful and cursing at it until a helpful grad student next to me pointed me at emacs. When I fired up emacs, by contrast, it had a helpful message telling me to type C-h t, which ran me through a nice little tutorial on how to use it, including C-x C-c to exit.
It would be so cool to interact with a car with a grammar instead of pointing and grunting. Drive two blocks to the roundabout, take the third exit, drive 2 km. It is a strange inversion that so many people sit in cars being given vi-like movement instructions by a computer.
I'm half-considering writing an ultra-lightweight Wayland compositor that largely gets out of my way and makes it easy to launch spacemacs and Chromium, because between those, I can do basically everything I use a computer for.
If you're referring specifically to evil mode I would agree with you (and this is coming from someone who loves and uses both Emacs and Vim regularly). I do enjoy what Spacemacs provides from a configuration and package management standpoint. Maintaining one file is a lot easier than maintaining entire .emacs.d.
Actually, I was talking about the configuration layers, in part: I don't know about you, but I'd like to know what my config is doing, dammit. Yes, my init.el is pretty long, but I know exactly what it's doing.
Some wheels have multi function rotary switches (Mercedes for example). You use buttons to control what rotary buttons do. And rotary switches can be used to control how gas or breaking pedals behave, so there are all kinds of Emacsy Meta happening.
...and would only be available in beige with a triangular steering wheel as RMS wants to encourage people to bring the functionality to free vehicles. You're welcome to fork the vehicle but until then only commercial vehicles have colour choices and round wheels.
I'm wholly in favour of FOSS and what it stands for but I often think RMS does more harm than good. Even when I agree with the point he's trying to make!
"Why would you want to do this? For countries that drive on the other side of the road. Like Canada. But, oops: they drive on the same side of the road, not the other side, so we see humorous bit #1: feigned American ignorance of Canada. But oops, again: assuming a left-side steering wheel is an AmericanCulturalAssumption - you might really want to change the side it's on if you're British and you're driving to Canada. That's humorous bit #2: we've caught the picky people in an unwarranted assumption (and a USAian one, at that!). Humorous bit #3 is the sheer unlikelihood of a British (or Japanese/Australian/Indian) person driving to Canada, after all.
That's the explanation. But it doesn't make the joke any funnier."
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I remember that day!
I'll admit that not much else is discoverable, until you start learning to peruse :help and Google.
You're not the only one[1] to express this though.
How you're supposed to discover ^X^C in emacs, though, I truly have no idea. See also ed, and if you've not see it, Ed man! !man ed[2].
[1]: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/435555976687923200?la...
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
Nano shows you a bunch of keybindings at the bottom of the screen. I once used vi and exited by toggling the power switch.
Also, if people first tried vi rather than vim... does vi have that help text?
Another confusing one when starting out was entering the 'help' area by accident. "How do I get back out? Argh! So arcane!". I'm quite happy with vim now, but there was definitely a learning curve.
https://archive.fo/VgNuv
So it's not only the worst of both worlds, it also has problems unto itself.
Their steering wheels look like this: https://www.google.se/search?q=F1+car+steering+wheel&&tbm=is...
Some wheels have multi function rotary switches (Mercedes for example). You use buttons to control what rotary buttons do. And rotary switches can be used to control how gas or breaking pedals behave, so there are all kinds of Emacsy Meta happening.
I'm wholly in favour of FOSS and what it stands for but I often think RMS does more harm than good. Even when I agree with the point he's trying to make!
Does someone really believe that we drive on the left-hand side of the road in Canada? Someone is really messed up in their geography.
They started out with French speaking parts driving on the right, English parts the left - until the 20s or 30s.
"Why would you want to do this? For countries that drive on the other side of the road. Like Canada. But, oops: they drive on the same side of the road, not the other side, so we see humorous bit #1: feigned American ignorance of Canada. But oops, again: assuming a left-side steering wheel is an AmericanCulturalAssumption - you might really want to change the side it's on if you're British and you're driving to Canada. That's humorous bit #2: we've caught the picky people in an unwarranted assumption (and a USAian one, at that!). Humorous bit #3 is the sheer unlikelihood of a British (or Japanese/Australian/Indian) person driving to Canada, after all.
That's the explanation. But it doesn't make the joke any funnier."