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		siege on May 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dealing with Wrist Pain Emacs with its shortcuts is actually a major wrist-killer - just see what happened to RMS... (disclaimer: I absolutely love emacs, but had to switch to vim just because of strain it puts on my wrists)

tshaddox on May 30, 2012 [–]

I've only been using Emacs as my exclusive editor for about 3 years, but with my Caps Lock key set as my primary Ctrl key I've never noticed any stress or pain.

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