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Shortening the ropeShortening the ropePosted Apr 4, 2009 0:00 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Shortening the rope by dododge Parent article: Shortening the rope
I'm a long-term XEmacs user who uses the meta key constantly, despite
starting out in TTYs with ESC the only option: but my keyboard (a Maltron) is sufficiently bizarre that I had to almost relearn typing, at least non-alphanumeric typing, when I switched. Learning to use the meta key was easy when I was learning to use ctrl (next to it) and backspace (next to that) at the same time.
(Yes, with ctrl-alt-backspace all in a line under my thumb I've been
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Shortening the rope Posted Apr 8, 2009 21:48 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] (Yes, with ctrl-alt-backspace all in a line under my thumb...I smell a Stones parody in there somewhere...
Shortening the rope Posted Apr 9, 2009 4:39 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] I smell a Stones parody in there somewhere... Well, I have little Sympathy for the Devil who insists on shortening the rope too much. Don't they realize that You Can't Always Get What You Want? It's bad enough that I Can't Get No Satisfaction with all these extra X server options, and no one else wants to come to my Emotional Rescue when my X session is Shattered. My computer is a Beast of Burden; I cannot just Let It Bleed. All I ask is that the developers Gimme Shelter from too short a rope. As for the bike shed (discussed by Thue below), why not just Paint It, Black?
Shortening the rope Posted Apr 17, 2009 8:05 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Not an intentional one, but it's nice watching people run with it :)
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