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Acca.285 net.games utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!z@CCA-UNIX Wed Feb 3 09:02:08 1982 Re: Vi Short Answer Quiz I thought it might be interesting to people that using my EMACS on my Ambassador terminal (which has a META key), I was able to do your quiz in 86 keystrokes; terminals without META keys would take 97.

Of course, this quiz was designed with vi in mind; it would be easy to design a quiz for EMACS which show up even greater differences. For example, "Exchange this Lisp s-expression with the previous one" takes one keystroke on an Ambassador terminal, two keystrokes on terminals without META keys.

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