🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4qoutt$97n@info.epfl.ch> "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch> writes:
   In article <4qlah5$mek@ohnasn01.sinet.slb.com>,
   Andries Kruithof <kruithof@horten.geco-prakla.slb.com> wrote:
   ] C-x C-f   load file
   ] C-x k     kill buffer
   ] C-x C-s   save file
   ] C-x C-c   quit emacs
   ] C-s       Search
   ] C-h b     list key-bindings
   ] C-h a     command apropos

   I'd add

	   C-k	kill-line
	   C-y     yank

   since it's so much more convenient than the copy/paste of the mouse.


	   Stefan

The other truly essential one for me was 

C-x 1 	delete-other-window

since it was initally pretty disconcerting to have windows appear and
have no idea how to get rid of them.

As for the original question -- I also had used vi long enough to make
it instinctive, but the syntax sensitive major editing modes really
won me over, along with the little niceties in emacs which help
prevent bonehead mistakes.

Also, the online help was a very big draw for me. I knew a lot of vi,
but there were always things I did infrequently that I couldn't figure
out, or forgot how to do, so I'd simply use brute force because
learning how to do them right would take more time.

I hope you are also asking the vi people, though. You are talking to
the converted.

--Mike

P.S. If you are going to do UNIX system admin, you do need to know vi,
even if you use emacs for your daily work.