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diff --git a/2020/schedule/07.md b/2020/schedule/07.md index a333d6cf..a9e895d9 100644 --- a/2020/schedule/07.md +++ b/2020/schedule/07.md @@ -5,49 +5,9 @@ Back to the [[schedule]] Previous: <a href="/2020/schedule/06">Trivial Emacs Kits</a> Next: <a href="/2020/schedule/08">Building reproducible Emacs</a> +Saturday, Nov 28 2020, 11:01 AM - 11:21 AM EST / 8:01 AM - 8:21 AM PST / 4:01 PM - 4:21 PM UTC / 5:01 PM - 5:21 PM CET / 12:01 AM - 12:21 AM +08 -# Beyond Vim and Emacs: A Scalable UI Paradigm -Saturday, Nov 28 2020, 11:01 AM - 11:21 AM EST / 8:01 AM - 8:21 AM PST / 4:01 PM - 4:21 PM UTC / 5:01 PM - 5:21 PM CET / 12:01 AM - 12:21 AM +08 -Sid Kasivajhula - -A practiced dexterity with the arcane incantations known as keybindings is -the true mark of the veteran Emacs user. Yet, it takes years to get there, -and if you tried to explain what you were doing there, nobody would -understand, least of all those Vim users who would say that the whole -enterprise was foolhardy to begin with. They don't get it, those fools. Let -them flounder about in their "normal mode." Normal isn't good enough for -me! I want exceptional, IDEAL, I want… glorious mode, that's what I want. -And the only thing that'll cut it is if I do it … my way. Why, with my -precious emacs.d, I'm invincible! Well… just between you and me, there -are times when learning new keybindings every time someone makes a new toy -gets to be a bit of a drag, and some days I can't keep my C-c's and my C-c -C-c's straight if I'm being honest with you, but you'll never catch me -admitting it! I do wonder if there's a better way to get to glorious mode, -even though my .emacs.d is already perfect (of course). - -If this secretly sounds like you, then rejoice, there just might be a new -way, a better way! And you could potentially get there in days instead of -years, so that even your script kiddie coworker with their "VSCode" (groan) -may at last come around to your way of looking at things, and, maybe, just -maybe, even those Vim users (hiss!)! - -"Epistemic" Emacs is a user interface paradigm based on treating aspects of -the user interface as conceptual entities that can be reasoned about in -terms of a standard language. Essentially, instead of learning keybindings -for each specific action, you learn keybindings for general, conceptual -habits, kind of like Vim, except that instead of reasoning only about text, -you reason about any aspect of your interaction with the machine, whether -it's windows or buffers or even those interactions themselves. The promise -of this approach is that you just learn a simple language once, and you can -then apply it to vastly different aspects of your user interface, with the -same keybindings doing different things in different contexts, in sensible -and predictable ways. And in principle, whenever that new toy technology -comes around, anyone could extend the UI language to apply to it in a -matter of minutes, and you'd already know how to use it. - - - - +[[!inline pages="../info/07" raw="yes"]] Back to the [[schedule]] Previous: <a href="/2020/schedule/06">Trivial Emacs Kits</a> |