My favorite Emacs-specific ergo tip: avoid chording. It's not for nothing that Emacs is so massively configurable. I have: (define-key global-map [f1] 'Control-X-prefix) (define-key global-map [f2] 'find-file) (define-key global-map [f3] 'save-buffer) (define-key global-map [f4] 'kill-buffer) (define-key global-map [f5] 'switch-to-buffer) (define-key global-map [f6] 'other-window) (define-key global-map [f9] 'compile)
in my.emacs (inspired by this.) I used to have a host of other things mapped all over the numeric keypad -- kill, yank, undo -- but I lost them at some point. I should re-create those.
Here are some favorites of mine, emphasizing the recent:
_Galveston_, Sean Stewart _Zeitgeist_, _Distractions_, Bruce Sterling _American Gods_, Neil Gaiman _Red Mars_, _Green Mars_, _Blue Mars_, Kim Stanly Robinson _Startide Rising_, _Earth_, David Brin _There and Back Again_, _Wild Angel_, _Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell_, Pat Murphy The Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold; start with _Cordelia's Honor_ _Stations of the Tide_, Michael Swanwick Iain M. Banks' Culture series, so far I've read the first 3: _Consider Phlebas_, _Player of Games_, _Use of Weapons_ _Perdido Street Station_, China Mievelle _Quarantine_, Greg Egan (haven't read any other Egan yet, but want to) _Stand on Zanzibar_, _The Sheep Look Up_, _Shockwave Rider_, John Brunner _Doomsday Book_, _Fire Watch_, _Impossible Things_, Connie Willis _Declare_, _The Stress of Her Regard_, _Last Call_, Tim Powers _Snow Crash_, _Cryptonomicon_, Neal Stephenson _Left Hand of Darkness_, _The Dispossessed_, Ursula Le Guin _As She Climbed Across the Table_, _Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye_, Jonathan Lethem _Doorways in the Sand_, Roger Zelazny _Corrupting Dr. Nice_, John Kessel _Think Like a Dinosaur_, _Strange But Not a Stranger_, James Patrick Kelly _Dancing with Myself_, _Georgia on My Mind and Other Places_, Charles Sheffield
If you like Heinlein, some current writers to check out are John Barnes (e.g. _Orbital Resonance_, _Kaleidoscope Century_) and Allen Steele (_Coyote_)
"More traditional fiction authors have gotten along just fine in getting their points across without having to resort to ludicrous, unrealistic devices like space or time travel or things taking place in an imagined "future". People like Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, John Irving and William Shakespeare, in fact."
Hee! That makes good satire, but ultimately poor trolling, which I take to have been your intent.
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My favorite Emacs-specific ergo tip: avoid chording. It's not for nothing that Emacs is so massively configurable. I have:
.emacs (inspired by this.) I used to have a host of other things mapped all over the numeric keypad -- kill, yank, undo -- but I lost them at some point. I should re-create those.
(define-key global-map [f1] 'Control-X-prefix)
(define-key global-map [f2] 'find-file)
(define-key global-map [f3] 'save-buffer)
(define-key global-map [f4] 'kill-buffer)
(define-key global-map [f5] 'switch-to-buffer)
(define-key global-map [f6] 'other-window)
(define-key global-map [f9] 'compile)
in my
Also don't neglect a good setup (good posture, good keyboard, good pointing device), and stretch breaks at least once an hour.
Here are some favorites of mine, emphasizing the recent:
_Galveston_, Sean Stewart
_Zeitgeist_, _Distractions_, Bruce Sterling
_American Gods_, Neil Gaiman
_Red Mars_, _Green Mars_, _Blue Mars_, Kim Stanly Robinson
_Startide Rising_, _Earth_, David Brin
_There and Back Again_, _Wild Angel_, _Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell_, Pat Murphy
The Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold; start with _Cordelia's Honor_
_Stations of the Tide_, Michael Swanwick
Iain M. Banks' Culture series, so far I've read the first 3: _Consider Phlebas_, _Player of Games_, _Use of Weapons_
_Perdido Street Station_, China Mievelle
_Quarantine_, Greg Egan (haven't read any other Egan yet, but want to)
_Stand on Zanzibar_, _The Sheep Look Up_, _Shockwave Rider_, John Brunner
_Doomsday Book_, _Fire Watch_, _Impossible Things_, Connie Willis
_Declare_, _The Stress of Her Regard_, _Last Call_, Tim Powers
_Snow Crash_, _Cryptonomicon_, Neal Stephenson
_Left Hand of Darkness_, _The Dispossessed_, Ursula Le Guin
_As She Climbed Across the Table_, _Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye_, Jonathan Lethem
_Doorways in the Sand_, Roger Zelazny
_Corrupting Dr. Nice_, John Kessel
_Think Like a Dinosaur_, _Strange But Not a Stranger_, James Patrick Kelly
_Dancing with Myself_, _Georgia on My Mind and Other Places_, Charles Sheffield
If you like Heinlein, some current writers to check out are John Barnes (e.g. _Orbital Resonance_, _Kaleidoscope Century_) and Allen Steele (_Coyote_)
"More traditional fiction authors have gotten along just fine in getting their points across without having to resort to ludicrous, unrealistic devices like space or time travel or things taking place in an imagined "future". People like Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, John Irving and William Shakespeare, in fact."
Hee! That makes good satire, but ultimately poor trolling, which I take to have been your intent.