Using EMacs: The ultimate hacker's text editor. Why on earth does Don Box like this thing?

 

Always did wonder what everyone saw in this thing. I'm a keyboard freak myself but this thing is *daunting*!

Tried it a few times, but I guess you have to be a real masochist to fall in love with this thing. That is - getting past the big hurdle takes the strength of a marathon runner. How would you feel if all your key bindings in the text editor looked like this:

 

C-f	move forward one character	M-f	move forward one word
C-b	move backwards one character	M-b	move backwards one word
C-n	move down one line (next line)	C-v	move down one screenful
C-p	move up one line (previous line)	M-v	move up one screenful
Backspace	delete to the left	M-Backspace	delete word to the left
C-d	delete to the right	M-d	delete word to the right
C-e	move to end of line	M-e	move to end of paragraph
C-a	move to start of line	M-a	move to start of paragraph

 

Key-binding	Function
C-right or M-right	move forward one word
C-left or M-left	move backwards one word
C-up	move up one paragraph
C-down	move down one paragraph
M-up	--Unbound--
M-down	--Unbound--