> In my undergraduate wisdom, I deemed emacs to be "stupid" and went on with my life using vi. That’s what we do when we’re younger. Judge things on the wrong

> In my undergraduate wisdom, I deemed emacs to be "stupid" and went on with my life using vi. That’s what we do when we’re younger. Judge things on the wrong basis. Or come up with weird theories on how people who prefer different things do so because they’re deficient in some way— > Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist. wait what… > And my conclusion was that emacs was for them, because hitting the control/alt key isn't as much of a penalty when you're a hunt-and-peck typist. You see that the there are Alt and Control keys on both sides of the (American[1]) keyboard. Right? Touch typing is no harder with Control and Alt than it is with Shift. > And my conclusion was that emacs was for them, because hitting the control/alt key isn't as much of a penalty when you're a hunt-and-peck typist. One Year of Experience Ten Times Over: The Comment. [1] The keyboard (ish) that these silly programs were kind of made for. The “European” keyboard has AltGr on the right side.