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points by elehack 17 hours ago | 0 comments

Atto's default key bindings match Emacs, which is about as standard as you get for non-modal editing keys in older Unix traditions.

[–] pjmlp 16 hours ago

I would assert Wordstar style are equally as old.

[–] Narishma 16 hours ago

But are mostly forgotten while emacs keybindings are still popular and found in all kinds of places you wouldn't expect, like MacOS textboxes.

[–] pjmlp 15 hours ago

Not when using joe, for example.

[–] anthk 10 hours ago

jmacs.

[–] jruohonen 13 hours ago

> match Emacs

For many, it is indeed about what they call "muscle memory". Almost impossible to change after so many years. And therefore I hope everyone would provide keybinding alternatives generally (shouldn't be that hard).

[–] cowlevel 16 hours ago

and isn't at all beginner friendly

[–] codedokode 16 hours ago

Emacs is probably older than me why should we care about what they used in 80s?

[–] MonkeyClub 16 hours ago

I see you’re using Latin characters...

[–] knorker 14 hours ago

It's 2026, why would anyone want to use an Intel architecture?

Or ARM? It's from the 1980s! So old!

[–] pjmlp 16 hours ago

Depends, do you care about UNIX and C, as products from 1970's?

[–] codedokode 16 hours ago

UNIX doesn't exist anymore, and C has lot of negative points (easy to create buffer overflows, integer overflows, use-after-free, and other vulnerabilities).

[–] pjmlp 15 hours ago

It surely does, Linux distros, BSDs, Aix, z/UNIX are all alive and well.

Despite all those flaws, people keep writing new software in C every day, go figure.

[–] anthk 5 hours ago

Then use Redox OS, or convince Torvalds to merge Asterinas' memory handling code into Linux.