Tag Archives: emacs

Emacs makes you retarded

September 17, 2005 – 10:25 am

As a long-time Emacs afficionado, I find this article rather amusing. Emacs Key Bindings Make You Retarded makes the case that years of being used to abominations such as hitting Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of a line can actually prevent you from using newer interfaces that are probably much better, ergonomically and productively. [...]

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Making Windows more like Emacs

August 25, 2003 – 1:23 pm
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Emacs Unicode support on Win32

March 18, 2003 – 11:47 am

I finally managed to get Win32 Emacs 21.2.1 to properly handle a Unicode text file. I’ve been meaning to get around to this for a while, because more and more often, the APIs in various Windows-based development platforms (among them Xbox) expect Unicode text files for configuration information. Even the Registry Editor (regedit) in Windows [...]

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