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> 3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I don't want to remap my brain. As someone
by abrowne 6y ago
> 3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I don't want to remap my brain.
As someone who's used Mac for a long time (and now Linux desktop, with similar shortcuts, plus spending most of my time in a browser like Chromium or Firefox), I chose other editors like Sublime and now VS Code partly because they use shortcuts that feel normal on those platforms so I didn't have to remap my brain. (More like my thumbs I think.) So to me the shortcuts changes in this project may be the most interesting part!
- vaxman 6y agoDon't talk about politics, religion or text editors at work, son. They used to ban people for starting rWars on USENET (that is, outside of the forums specifically for rWars) back in the day.
- murgindrag 6y agoI'm not sure anyone is actually fighting. We both like what we're used to, and neither of us is claiming it's better. We're both just agreeing we don't want to change. People are allowed to like different things (except vi, obviously -- I hope we can all agree to that). As a footnote: I'm comfortable with mainstream keyboard shortcuts too, but not in emacs. Those things do specific things in emacs, and would be a mess. If you remap ctrl-k, I won't have a way to cut a line anymore! I need that.
- abrowne 6y agoHear, hear. Celebrate diversity! FWIW, VS Code uses Ctrl+Shift+K by default for Delete Line. I'm used to it enough that I sometimes try it in other apps, like Chromium text boxes …