From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4939 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2006 17:10:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4931 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Apr 2006 17:10:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fios.cgf.cx (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.247) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:10:10 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 4E82913C01E; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:10:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:10:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup Message-ID: <20060419171009.GA11881@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List References: <006c01c66337$63d348a0$b6922080@Tasha> <4445B094.10504@byu.net> <44462E48.9010903@byu.net> <20060419170020.GA7257@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00091.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:07:42PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I remember sitting in an associate's office and commiserating about the >> *stoopidity* of the whole concept of vi with it's hjkl arrow keys and >> different modes for input and editing. Now I'm happily ensconced in >> that mindset. I still understand the allure of emacs, though. > >FWIW, it's the only mindset that makes sense for touch-typists. I mean, >being able to move around the document without taking your fingers off the >home row -- what can be better? :-) Yep, now that you mention it, that's why I am on my fourth IBM trackpoint keyboard. My hands never have to leave the home row. cgf