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[cellio]

Two items seen in rapid succession today:

• Here's why you're not hiring the best and brightest: (Jeff Atwood) talks about making telecommuting work so that you really can hire the best employees, as opposed to the best employees willing to live in a particular location. I once applied for a telecommuting position at a company that seems to get it

Comments

[dr_zrfq]

**snrk!!**

I prefer Emacs but know vi/vim and even ex ... it's a necessary survival skill in my world. (Even ed and sed !) Also, although I don't often remember it myself, once you've hit the escape key enough times to get out of input mode, typing two capital Z's in succession should also perform save-and-quit. I'm a bit surprised that Clippy didn't suggest that.

Now I need the key sequence for "explosively disintegrate Clippy into unrecognizable component particles that cannot possibly be reassembled".

[cellio]

I've been using emacs for rather a long time and the muscle memory is strong, so that's the editor I reach for too.

Now I need the key sequence for "explosively disintegrate Clippy into unrecognizable component particles that cannot possibly be reassembled".

I don't know what vi's philosophy is on stuff like this, but I wouldn't bother setting a key binding for a single-use command. "Meta-x exp" (auto-complete to "explode-clippy") should suffice. But, that said, I don't see that in the version of emacs I have here; maybe it's a newer feature.