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I did not submit this article. This article got submitted i believe because this morning i tweeted my new keyboard blog on twitter, and my keyboard blog mentioned this 6 years old …

The articles you are citing are from comp.lang.lisp newsgroup. I'm a regular there roughly from 1999 to 2010. I didn't buy a domain to put a rant. I had a website since 1995, had d…

that keyboard rant is written 6 years ago. Back then many programers will praise Das all over, but not aware that many keyboard in gamer community are cheaper even with better qual…

it is correct to write programer with single m. Check any major dictionary. I use Truly Ergonomic Keyboard.

hi, you might give it a try. Many who used emacs for 10 to 20 years wrote to say they absolutely love it and switched. You can see them in the testimonials section. Matthew Fidler …

thanks for the post! by the way, there's earlier hackernews discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695893

emacs lisp cannot load one line of a file. It's whole or nothing.

con shouldn't be used, especially today. see this Guy Steele article: Guy Steele on Parallel Programing: Get rid of cons! http://xahlee.info/comp/Guy_Steele_parallel_computing.html…

which way to use let is just a personal taste. When i begin in elisp, i ALWAYS stick with this form of using local var: (let (x y z) (setq ...) (setq ...) (setq ...) ... ) This mak…

hi PuercoPop, that code is meant to be run as a script (emacs --script filename), so i used setq is possibly more proper. But, this is just post-fact defense, as lots my pages bega…

what a malicious lie. I have written some 10 packages, at least hundred thousand lines of emacs lisp since 2005, all public in github or on my website. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/x…

how is it not possible to run emacs with azerty keyboard? is there something preventing you from starting emacs? or some key efficiency issue??

here's what i think. in both ijkl and hjkl, you have one finger doing 2 keys. In vi, it's pointing finger doing hj, moving side ways. In ijkl, it's middle finger doing up down. So …

awesome. gosh that page is ranked 5! I still think google is best and trustworthy, but i also felt the problem of content farm in recent years as others. I run my site and find it …