The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Push-down.

Well-put:

I tried to use a word processor to edit a 14-page interview a couple of weeks ago. I can’t believe anyone puts up with that. You have to position the mouse cursor just so to select a region of text, then cut it, then position the mouse cursor just so and then paste it.

mr_chromatic, reddit

Pick Emacs or vim; learn it. Text editing without them is a bleary swamp land surrounding these two bastions of freedom.

[(2008 October 23) • • .]

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Apparently this person isn’t familiar with the shift, control, and arrow keys…

—The Eye of Bertram on 2008.10.23 (15:53)

I imagine pressing the down arrow through 14 pages gets old after a while.

—shadytrees on 2008.10.23 (18:48)

I’d guess. If I needed to select all but the first few lines of a document, I’d start off at the beginning of what I wanted to select and press ctrl-shift-end. ctrl-shift-down/up selects by paragraph, so that’d rip through most documents in short order.

—The Eye of Bertram on 2008.10.24 (11:23)

Oh hey, you’re not on Twitter anymore. Your “me” page is full of lies!

—The Eye of Bertram on 2008.10.24 (11:25)

Yikes. That link should point to this. This is what I get for not proofreading.

—shadytrees on 2008.10.24 (13:38)

Abandon your ideas.

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