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Aucb.174 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Sun Dec 13 16:58:19 1981 emacs style >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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