When I started at Red Hat in 2014, they asked if I liked Vim or Emacs, and what was my favourite IRC client. They were boggled when the answers were "neither" and "I can't remember."
I hadn't used IRC since the 1990s or so, and after learning the basics of Vi on SCO Xenix and IBM AIX in 1988-1989 I'd barely looked at it again. I was amazed to find passionate Vi advocates born since the last time I opened vi. It was very strange.
For me, editors moved past the bad old days of 1970s UI in the early 1990s and I've never looked back.
In the '80s I knew dozens of text editor UIs and was fast in all of them. In the 1990s I switched to CUA and never looked back.
My muscle memory is for CUA, and the great thing about it is not only blinding fast text editing, it means I can control the entire OS with the same keystrokes. I don't really need a pointing device at all on a Linux or Windows machine, except for using a web browser.
I use one, because it's always there now, but I can live happily without. My first close blind friend was amazed by the fact that I could operate his PC quite happily. He doesn't own a mouse, because he can't see the pointer. He only has screens on some of his computers so he can watch videos with friends; his UI is 100% speech.
I do need a screen -- I am not very skilled with a screen reader -- but give me a screen and a keyboard and I'm mostly set.
This is for me the selling point of CUA: it's not just an efficient UI and set of keystrokes for a text editor, it also lets me use any compliant app, GUI or text mode, on any platform. Windows 3 to Windows 11, and Xfce, and LXDE, and to a large extent in MATE or Cinnamon or LXQt, on Linux or xBSD.
When I started at Red Hat in 2014, they asked if I liked Vim or Emacs, and what was my favourite IRC client. They were boggled when the answers were "neither" and "I can't remember."
I hadn't used IRC since the 1990s or so, and after learning the basics of Vi on SCO Xenix and IBM AIX in 1988-1989 I'd barely looked at it again. I was amazed to find passionate Vi advocates born since the last time I opened vi. It was very strange.
For me, editors moved past the bad old days of 1970s UI in the early 1990s and I've never looked back.
In the '80s I knew dozens of text editor UIs and was fast in all of them. In the 1990s I switched to CUA and never looked back.
My muscle memory is for CUA, and the great thing about it is not only blinding fast text editing, it means I can control the entire OS with the same keystrokes. I don't really need a pointing device at all on a Linux or Windows machine, except for using a web browser.
I use one, because it's always there now, but I can live happily without. My first close blind friend was amazed by the fact that I could operate his PC quite happily. He doesn't own a mouse, because he can't see the pointer. He only has screens on some of his computers so he can watch videos with friends; his UI is 100% speech.
I do need a screen -- I am not very skilled with a screen reader -- but give me a screen and a keyboard and I'm mostly set.
This is for me the selling point of CUA: it's not just an efficient UI and set of keystrokes for a text editor, it also lets me use any compliant app, GUI or text mode, on any platform. Windows 3 to Windows 11, and Xfce, and LXDE, and to a large extent in MATE or Cinnamon or LXQt, on Linux or xBSD.