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ESC ESC should dabbrev, ESC / eval-expression

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From: Sebastian Kremer
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 14:17
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ESC ESC should be bound to dabbrev, one of most useful emacs commands
when typing text.  If you need dabbrev, you need it really fast, and
ESC ESC is about the fastest two-letter key stroke besides C-x C-x.
On some keyboards, / is rather hard to type and requires the shift
key.

On the other hand, when using eval-expression, you type a s-exp
anyway, and it is not so important to bind it to a fast key sequence.

Every new user is annoyed by the accidental call of eval-expression,
and typing ESC twice is a quite common typo.  Few beginners know about
dabbrev, but everyone whom I told about it was very enthusiastic.  If it
were bound to ESC ESC, they could discover it themselves.

That goes under "philosophical bugs", I guess.
--

Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. of Germany
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Subject: ESC ESC should dabbrev, ESC / eval-expression
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