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Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience
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Davis Herring |
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Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience |
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Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:28:12 -0600 |
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> And some commands that are frequently used, such as {open, save, close
> buffer}, all require multiple keystrokes with the difficult Ctrl key.
This is something of a red herring: the frequency of file commands like
these is negligible compared to the frequency of editing/motion
commands, so it does no harm (aside from breaking some users'
expectations) to have them use longer keys.
Moreover, opening a file can't be faster than picking the file, which
(even with sophisticated completion and filecache and the like) is
slower than C-x C-f by a fair margin. Saving a file is all but unneeded
in Emacs anyway.
Only `kill-buffer' could really be considered too slow, what with its
extra RET. I bind a key to `bury-buffer' and tend to use it instead
(mostly for dabbrev).
Davis
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