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Re: Quoting



On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:03:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:02:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > My mail delivery statistics say that I've read an average of just under
> > 800 mails per day over the last week, and that's while getting a good
> > deal of work done as well.
> 
> Yeah.  It gets to the point where using the keyboard feels more like
> playing the piano.  You're no longer typing, you're more doing pretty
> simple "chords" on it, thinking not what keys you're pressing, but
> what you want it to do.

Indeed, and it's why the cryptic key sequences of vi don't bother me
either. (I'm sure emacs would be the same if I got used to it.)

I do play the piano, so maybe that has something to do with it ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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