Lucas Rockwell - Latest Comments in Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Izmir escort — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:17:49 -0000

well.. u know.. i do..

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Igor Guerrero — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:23:00 -0000

Well, you know... in PC we have the HOME key thats better than a key combination ;)

Many of your points are or incorrect or just showing plain ignorance, you *can* use Emacs style in GNOME, and there is no other desktop environment more inconsistent in their hotkeys than OS X.

Your article is very lame, and you should use VIM or Emacs like a real hacker not TextMate...

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Az — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:22:33 -0000

I too frequently disregard entire operating systems because I have to learn something new ^_^

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Anon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:08:53 -0000

"I still couldn’t use Linux as my everyday, desktop OS"

What do you think Mac OS X is? Besides a fancy linux distro?

*...Next!...*

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Daniel Lucraft — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:07:56 -0000

This frustrates me too. I have emacs style bindings set in Firefox, and actually it's just made things more confusing even than having to remember two sets of keys, because Ctrl+D to go to the address bar no longer works.

Redcar follows Textmate in going with Emacs style keybindings, at least most of the way (Ctrl+C copy and Ctrl+V paste still exist). I don't believe I have implemented Ctrl+Y for paste yet (mainly because it's not a key I use much on the command line), but you've convinced me that consistency is good.

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:46:30 -0000

I honestly can't believe this waste of my time made it onto hacker news.

Re: Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux

Not Jony Ive — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:01:40 -0000

"(For some reason, I have never used the [cmd key] to the right of the spacebar.)"

Perhaps as a defense mechanism: for many years, half their lineup (i.e., all their laptops) had some other key in that position, like Enter. Yeah, I have no clue why you'd want Enter there, either.