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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:47:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hi, Xah,
I see you're in combative mood again. ;-)
In comp.emacs Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> in my quite painstaking research about all aspects of keyboard in the
> past few years, i came to this one single most important principle:
> most frequently used command needs to go to most easy to press key
> spots.
> all other keybinding considerations, such as ease-to-remember, logical
> placement with similar commands, are in comparsion almost unimportant.
[ ..... ]
> with respect to emacs keybinding, emacs should ..... support the 7 or
> so standard keys such as Open, Close, Copy, Paste.
There seems to be a contradiction between those last two paragraphs.
Saving buffers and finding files are relatively rare operations which
thus shouldn't be given very easy to press key sequences like C-s and
C-o.
> Xah ? http://xahlee.org/
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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