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As an emacs user I like the little rant about keyboards towards the end (54:27). It's stupid hard to find a laptop with good keys, good layout, good internals,
by superbaconman 7y ago
As an emacs user I like the little rant about keyboards towards the end (54:27). It's stupid hard to find a laptop with good keys, good layout, good internals, and good battery.
- GrayShade 7y agoI'm partial to the Emacs keybindings, but you you're so right about the laptop keyboards. Mine doesn't have an End key (Home, PgDn, PgUp, Power).
- mickeyp 7y agoThe benefit of Emacs's keybindings is that they're the default keys used by GNU readline (though it also supports Vi-style keys.) That means when you know that Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A (`C-e' / `C-a') goes to the end or beginnings of a line in Emacs, you know it'll also work in your bash shell (or indeed any tool that uses GNU readline.)
- GrayShade 7y agoThat's what I'm using while coding, but it's not friendly to all software (e.g. browsers or other programs that don't have configurable keyboard shortcuts).
- waterhouse 7y agoThis is one of the things I like about Mac OS: text fields, by default, have the readline keybindings. In the box where I'm typing this comment in Firefox, I can use control-{a,e,n,p,f,b,d,h,k} just like I can in the shell. This is one of the reasons I haven't tried harder to use a Linux desktop.
- nemoniac 7y agoGet a Thinkpad, remap the keys in software and never look down again.