Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

[rusi]

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 7:40:39 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > The fact that rms has crippling RSI should indicate that
> > emacs' ergonomics is not right.
> 
> Kind of a small sample size, don't you think? Hopefully we can kill
> this meme that Emacs is somehow worse for your wrists than other text
> editors before it goes any further than your one unsupported
> assertion.

Not beyond small sample but beyond singleton:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html

> * a lot of typing,
> * use of modifier keys (ctrl, alt, command, etc)
> * movement between the mouse and the keyboard

My own experience: The second 2 are the worse culprits.
And while emacs is bad on the second, its excellent on the third -- to the extend that you 'live inside emacs,' you dont need the mouse.