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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:34:34 -0400
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release 
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19970912173434.009f5510@cybercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199709121611.MAA18193@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970912163258.13202A-100000@uk.ns.eu.org>

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At 12:19 PM 9/12/97 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>Hoe the hell is a newbie supposed to know emacs key bindings?  They are
>documented internally in emacs, assuming you know that M- means meta, and
>that meta is <alt>, etc.  I don't like ee, I use vi almost exclusively,
>with some emacs for large jobs with multiple files, but I wouldn't expect
>a new user to know how to use either of them.

I don't think it's as important to have a set of bindings that are already
well know as it is to be able to get to the relevant help quickly and easily.

K.S.



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