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I decided to install emacs so I could look at the org mode everyone is talking about.
My first document pretty much looked like:

:q
:wq
:q!
:wq!

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@viciousviscosity tooooootally feel your pain. I think I used vanilla emacs for a hot minute before I gave up and switched to spacemacs

@balrogboogie Oh, this looks interesting. Evil mode build in kinda thing?

@viciousviscosity yep, evil mode is built in, along with a bunch of other nice stuff. I used it for a while and really liked it, then I got a new laptop and haven't taken the time to get it back up and configured again 🤦

@emdeesee @viciousviscosity I seriously considered buying a USB foot pedal keyboard so that I could do Ctrl and Meta with my feet. I was talked out of it by someone who said they'd tried it and that feet don't move fast enough so it actually slows you down.

(Now that I think about it, even beyond muscle fiber types and whatnot, just nerve conduction time is a problem.)

@steelman @emdeesee @viciousviscosity Yeah, I've already put `/usr/bin/setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps'` in my startup script so that my caps is a ctrl key. It does help!

And a friend of mine has his set up so that holding caps makes it work as a ctrl key, but tapping it makes it work as esc. He hasn't come out to me as such, but I suspect he's bitextual.

@varx

i.
love.
this.

Know what I'm going to be doing today :3

@varx @emdeesee @viciousviscosity Get a Keyboardio Model01, and use your palms. Faster and more comfortable than feet. (At least I hope so. I've yet to try foot pedals..)

@algernon @varx @emdeesee I reeeealy like the keyboardio, but I can’t justify the cost, both monetarily and in learning curve, at this time.

@varx @viciousviscosity You only need to be listening to the right music while typing to realize the trouble with pedals...

youtube.com/watch?v=yvEWNlcefA

@viciousviscosity well, that's harmless.

it's much worse when, as a emacs user, end up in vim session and go CTRL-x-s

you do know what happens next?

#emacs #vim

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@viciousviscosity You should install evil mode right away or try spacemacs!