image transcription: picture of a statue of the Hindu deity Durga. The statue has ten arms.
caption underneath the picture reads: in Hinduism, Durga is revered as the goddess of war, motherhood, and protection. But did you know she also wrote the default key bindings for Emacs?
Just get an emacs pedal https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches
I did not know those existed. But I’m not surprised Emacs users would be seeking them out.
Nor am I surprised that an entire writeup on Emacs-triggered hand strain is one of the hyperlinks on the article you linked.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RepeatedStrainInjury
They aren’t. Someone did it, probably more than one person, but if you look hard enough you can find people who do all sorts of weird stuff. It’s not an “Emacs thing” at all.
This and the joke itself really make me wonder about bizarre Emacs (and Emacs users) that exists in people’s heads.
I see you use capital letters in your post, so you presumably used a modifier key (
shift) - unless you do modal caps with CapsLock all the time. I don’t know why people find that normal and easy, but as soon as it’sCtrlorAltthey get in a tizzy and start talking about RSI.Funny how over the decades I’ve known many Emacs users, and many RSI sufferers, but the overlap in my Venn diagram of that is exactly one person.