From fc01255025f3270df0f275055b3c18b1cb2d00f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:34:03 -0500 Subject: Let's try it with individual info pages that are included --- 2020/info/07.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2020/info/07.md (limited to '2020/info/07.md') diff --git a/2020/info/07.md b/2020/info/07.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4b3683ac --- /dev/null +++ b/2020/info/07.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +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. + -- cgit v1.2.3