editors having too many commands

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1982 03:32

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>From cbosgd!mark Sat Jul 31 03:12:51 1982
I'm sure we've all heard the complaint that editor X "has too many commands".
(vi and emacs are both subject to this one, and I'm sure others are too.)

I have just made the claim that there is no such thing as an editor with
too many commands (except from the viewpoint of the person who has to
implement it), but rather the problem is that the documentation is so
thick that it's very hard to find the command you really want.

Can anyone make an intelligent refutation of this claim?  If there are
other problems with these editors caused by the large number of commands,
I'd like to hear about it.

	Mark Horton

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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!C70:editor-people
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Title: editors having too many commands
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Posted: Sat Jul 31 03:32:51 1982
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Subject: editors having too many commands
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1982 03:32:51 +0000
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