On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:08:47 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.)
Oddly enough I punch through about as many messages in a day as Colin does
with Sylpheed-Claws. GUI does not automatically translate into inefficient
any more than CLI automatically translates into efficient.
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