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by ctrw 871 days ago
When you're too cool for temporal modal editing so you invent spacial modal editing.

Been using that for a while and yes it is the best parts of vim with the best parts of Emacs.

The main selling point is that I can now edit lisp code on my phone with the thumb key keyboard... Come to think of it I can probably use a physical corded keyboard now too...

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No, turns out physical chorded keyboards are a lot worse than I remember for code.
Circa 2000, some people were using the Twiddler one-handed chorded keyboard with wearable computing. I'm not certain this was for coding, but Bradley Rhodes was using his wearable heavily, with Emacs as the primary UI in his head-up display.
They are OK for text input, it's the extra symbols you need for coding that are the issue. Even the () for lisp are second class characters.