Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for programming right now?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for program... by kmiyer on Sunday April 01, 2012 @12:40PM (#3784156)

I use a Lenovo X220 with an SSD and a 15" MBP (also with an SSD). They're both fantastic machines. The Lenovo lets me use Linux with pretty much perfect compatibility and has the best keyboard I've ever used. The MPB similarly has the best trackpad I've encountered. The main unexpected advantage of using OS X has been the presence of readline-style keyboard shortcuts at an OS mediated level (in any text field). Once you get used to that, using any other OS for incidental typing (in search fields or forms) feels slow.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for program... by Michiel on Sunday April 01, 2012 @01:42PM (#3784374)

"the presence of readline-style keyboard shortcuts at an OS mediated level"

What does that mean? Do you have an example comparing it to non-'readline-style' shortcuts?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for program... by tsm on Monday April 02, 2012 @05:32PM (#3790198)

I'm assuming it refers to the fact that most simple Emacs-flavored shortcuts work in any textfield. C-A for <Home>, C-E for <End>, C-K to kill to the end of the line, etc. Certain tookits do this on Linux (Qt for one, I think), and I agree that it's hugely helpful.

So I believe non-readline-style shortcuts would refer to, for example, C-A to select all text.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for program... by kmiyer on Monday April 02, 2012 @05:50PM (#3790261)

Exactly. I should probably have referred to them as emacs-style as readline can be configured to have vi-bindings as well.

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