Slate, Friday, 2 January 12026 HE
2026-01-02 | 26A02 | 2026-002 | 2461043
2026-W01-5 | Q1 | Inverno
2015-08-25 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
young plumeria, Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i
Pet Shop Boys – “It’s a Sin” ↗
there was a recent discussion on Mastodon about Emacs versus CUA – Emacs went “operational” nigh on 50 years ago in the wild west of user interfaces – a decade later, Apple started work on their Human Interface Guidelines to ensure Mac apps had a common look-and-feel – at the same time, IBM was looking at the chaotic landscape of text interfaces and created Common User Access as a set of guidelines to unify the chaotic landscape
The sad thing about Emacs is that it’s almost impossible to explain it to somebody who hasn’t embraced Emacs for a couple of months or so.
—posted to Mastodon (2025-12-30)
I could spend a couple months trying to get a handle on Emacs’ archaic chains of commands and shibboleths leftover from antediluvian keyboards before I can decide whether I like it or not –OR– I could jump in cold turkey into Micro, gedit/Leafpad/Featherpad/Mousepad/Pluma/Xed, EDIT, Notepad/Notepad++, Kate, or any of the other several dozen text editors and word processors developed in the last 40 years and actually start using it right away without feeling out of place
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