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From: | Jim Janney |
Subject: | Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? |
Date: | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:43:24 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes: > Cthun <cthun_117@qmail.net.au> writes: > >> On 22/02/2011 2:47 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> There seems to be a contradiction between those last two paragraphs. >>> Saving buffers and finding files are relatively rare operations which >>> thus shouldn't be given very easy to press key sequences like C-s and >>> C-o. >> >> Where do you live where software never crashes and the electricity never goes >> out? Most of us learn to save very frequently to limit how much we'll have to >> do over again if the power goes out or whatever. > > Most of us use smart editors that auto-save regularly and free the user > form having to do this manually all the time. Compared to other > operations, saving files and opening files are less frequent operations > and do not need to be as convenient keystrokes as other more frequent > editing operations. Anything I'm working on that would be expensive to lose goes under version control anyway. -- Jim Janney
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