alt Hacker NewsThe two complaints I hear is:
1.Memorizing how to use it has a big learning curve.
2.Wrist pain from pressing button combinations all the time.
Otherwise plenty of people still use it and it's great. Just hard to pick up for new users.
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SoftTalker • today at 4:07 PM
WRT point 2, binding the caps-lock key to ctrl helps a lot, or finding a keyboard with the ctrl key to the left of "A".
asimovDev • today at 2:15 PM
being scared of emacs pinkie was a major contributor for me back as a student to learning vim. I remap ctrl to CAPS LOCK on all my computers as one of the first things but I still end up using my pinkie. I've been playing with the idea of switching ctrl to the spacebar at least in non insert mode though because I still end up using my pinkie a lot when scrolling with Ctrl+E for example
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I've only ever used emacs in vim mode (evil-mode). Its vim emulation is the best I've seen anywhere.