{"id":8232,"date":"2019-08-10T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2019-08-10T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T21:43:06","slug":"an-emacs-tale-from-bizarro-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"An Emacs Tale From Bizarro World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most constant complaints about Emacs is its reliance on finger mangling key chords forever memorialized by the \u201cEscape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift\u201d backronym. Indeed, many Emacs users, including some Irreal regulars, use one of the vi emulation packages, <code>evil<\/code>, <code>Spacemacs<\/code>, or <code>Doom<\/code>, precisely to avoid those awkward key chords and the damage that they\u2019re purported to cause to one\u2019s wrists and fingers. Some Emacs users have even had to abandon the editor because of the strain it put on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s title is due to a post from Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez, who like an inhabitant of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bizarro_World\">Bizarro World<\/a> where everything works the opposite of how it does here, says that <a href=\"https:\/\/manuel.is\/posts\/how-emacs-saved-my-wrist\/\">Emacs saved his wrist<\/a>. The TL;DR is that the constant switching from mouse to keyboard with his old IDE was causing him to suffer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repetitive_strain_injury\">RSI<\/a> in his right wrist. He tried a more ergonomic mouse, which helped a bit but still didn\u2019t solve the problem. He decided to try an editor that could be used with just the keyboard and ultimately settled on Emacs. Surprisingly, to us here on Earth, using Emacs did solve his problem and now he\u2019s pain-free.<\/p>\n<p>The weak humor of Bizarro World aside, Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s story is interesting exactly because it goes against the conventional wisdom. My guess would be that a lot\u2014not all but a lot\u2014of the RSI troubles that Emacs gets blamed for is really the fault of a mouse. You don\u2019t have to take my word for it, ask Gonz\u00e1lez. And <i>do<\/i> read his post; it\u2019s an interesting story.<\/p>\n<p>*Update <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2019-08-10 Sat 17:41]<\/span><\/span>: Fixed link to Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most constant complaints about Emacs is its reliance on finger mangling key chords forever memorialized by the \u201cEscape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift\u201d backronym. Indeed, many Emacs users, including some Irreal regulars, use one of the vi emulation packages, evil, Spacemacs, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}