"Why ratpoison on this day and age?"

There's no expiry date on a productive workflow.

Why not ratpoison?

fuzzix said it best. Long ago I configured ratpoison to be modal like vi, with tons of personal customizations. I've set it up to behave exactly like I'd want any WM to, so what's the use of moving to something newer?

my bad, i thought it was not being maintained. well, i think it was when i last looked... even moved my desktop to wmii at the time...

my bad. it's still very alive.