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emacs style

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From: ucbvaxC70editor-people
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1981 16:58
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>From ihnss!warren@Berkeley Sun Dec 13 16:54:30 1981
Frequent emacs users adopt an editing style that others may not
realize.  You tend to do very simple, or very complicated
commands.  Either you do editing via single cursor movement and single
character deletions with multipliers, or you have some
application-specific editing task for which you have a customized
command.  (Make me a procedure definition, delete the current S
expression, etc.).  You don't tend to use intermediate level
commands (delete word, etc.).  This is based on statistics from my
unix emacs.  A possible explanation is that once you get good at
typing just a few things quickly, it's mentally less taxing to try
something simple (like ^U^U^D) and see what it did than to think up
the exact command to do just what you want.


	Warren Montgomery
	ihnss!warren
	IH x2494
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Subject: emacs style
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1981 16:58:19 +0000
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