[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Nix]

On 18 May 2009, David Damerell told this:
> On Sunday, 17 May 2009, Nix wrote:
>>Not exactly. Both Emacs flavours have the ability to distinguish many
>>more key combinations under X than on a TTY: the distinct between
>>control-A and shift-control-A is invisible on a TTY, and you don't have
>>a chordable meta key (you have to hit ESC first) nor hyper and super
>>keys.
>
> But since I regularly use the tty version, I don't have any finger
> bindings for the X version. I always hit ESC for meta, for example. So

So did I until I switched keyboards. I still do it intermittently.

> I really do mean that I use it exactly the same way.

What, you wouldn't notice the difference? You don't use hyper or super
for anything?
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