From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Learning "my emacs" from the start (was: Generating a listing of all symbols) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19937386-3859-46d4-9677-ed2f1b8c5698@googlegroups.com> References: <3defe928-5d2e-4d3b-bc26-f595f275f840@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398000327 6741 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2014 13:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:25:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 15:25:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbrkE-0008KN-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbrkE-0007Eo-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:25:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.42.209.18 with SMTP id ge18mr9496452icb.7.1398000212360; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:23:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.131.201 with SMTP id oo9mr375338igb.4.1398000212275; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!c1no1098075igq.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni537igc.0!nntp.google.com!c1no1098070igq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.37.25; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.37.25 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:23:32 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204993 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97258 Archived-At: On Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:36:23 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > One significant advantage of using the standard Emacs bindings is that > your muscle memory will still be applicable when you need to work on > someone else's machine, or even explain to someone else how to solve a > problem in their Emacs. This isn't something to dismiss easily in the > long run. I once discovered that a co-worker was very mad at me. I then discovered it was because for some reason he had to turn on my machine, then he could not turn it off. I had flipped CAPSLOCK and Ctrl so Ctrl-Alt-Del stopped being what he thought it was :-) (Windows machine)