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

[David Damerell]

On Sunday, 17 May 2009, Nix wrote:
>On 16 May 2009, David Damerell spake thusly:
>>         Sometimes I'm running Emacs locally and, yes, technically I am
>>using the GUI version; but I am using it exactly as I would the curses
>>version over ssh.
>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
I really do mean that I use it exactly the same way.

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