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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and vim analogs
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:03:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <854ppji8yx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4699.1171822764.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Clinton Curry" <clintonc@uab.edu> writes:

> I've been bouncing back and forth between Vim and Emacs for some time, and
> lately I've been trying to reconcile the abilities of one with the other. 
> Specifically, I'm wondering if there is something in Emacs analogous to the
> following Vim capabilities.
>
> 1) Omni-completion.  Here, if you're happily typing something and
> come across a name, function call, etc, that you have typed before,
> in Vim you can press Ctrl+N to see what can go with what you've
> typed so far.  Moreover, in many cases, it does this intelligently,
> taking syntax into account.

M-/

> 2) Redo-last-change.  In Vim, if you make a change, pressing "."
> will make the change again.  Is there something analogous in Emacs,
> aside from defining a macro?

Either C-x M-ESC or C-x z, depending on your requirements.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

       reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4699.1171822764.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-18 19:03 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-02-18 21:36   ` Emacs and vim analogs M G Berberich
2007-03-01 14:46     ` Ken Goldman
2007-03-01 15:44       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-18 18:19 Clinton Curry
2007-02-18 19:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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