On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > "rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip). > > I suspect that 'rms' = Richard M Stallman (but why lower case? to insult > him?). I 'know' that RSI = Roberts Space Industries, a game company whose > Kickstarter project I supported. Whoops, wrong context. How about 'Richard > Stallman Insanity' (his personal form of megalomania)? That makes the phrase > is a claim I have read others making. > > Lets continue and see if that interpretation works. "should indicate that > emacs' ergonomics is not right". Aha! Anonymous believes that using his own > invention, emacs, is what drove Richard crazy. He would not be the first > self invention victim. > > But Skip mentions 'worse for wrists'. So RSI must be a physical rather than > mental condition. Does 'I' instead stand for Inoperability?, Instability?, > or what? > > Let us try Google. Type in RSI and it offers 'RSI medications' as a choice. > Sound good, as it will eliminate all the companies with those initials. The > two standard medical meanings of RSI seem to be Rapid Sequence Intubation > and Rapid Sequence Induction. But those are procedures, not chronic > syndromes. So I still do not know what the original poster, as quoted by > Skip, meant. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
RSI is a repetitive stress injury. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
