From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T03:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby based editor

On 5/1/06, Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> wrote:
> "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Also, I saw on your site that you switched to dvorak. I switched a
> >> couple years ago and my hands are much happier. :)
> >
> > Having used dvorak for ~6 months I have switched back to qwerty,
> > because most keybindings favors qwerty :-(
> > Using vim in dvorak mode was interesting.
>
> Heh. Dvorak was the main reason I chose Emacs over Vim several years
> ago. I'm happy with the way things turned out, even if I didn't have a
> great reason to start out with.

I use vim often these days, and have tried emacs for a time, but
didn't see any difference regarding one being harder than the other
wrt dvorak vs. qwerty. Regardless of keyboard layout, emacs keys
seemed a bit more consistent, but I ended up using vim instead for
other reasons.

Also, emacs always gave me that eerie feeling that it was thinking
about things behind my back. Like it was just allowing me to edit text
as one of it's low-priority background tasks (to humor me perhaps)
while silently carrying on with its own affairs. ;)