From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raffaele Ricciardi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: efficient replacing =?windows-1252?Q?=96_really_faster_?= =?windows-1252?Q?compared_to_using_the_mouse=3F?= Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:46:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344617429 25840 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2012 16:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 18:50:29 2012 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 1SzsPn-00060W-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzsPm-0000Wb-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:50:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net oXRCpPejju313ThG/USdsArr5P6HQd6AGyhudf45aXm7VFMbfKVSFm5i6AZ5pNfdgP Cancel-Lock: sha1:0SBynkG2hNIV6fuNbInjV3sU2Eg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193930 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:86299 Archived-At: When editing with the keyboard, you move around with incremental search. Emacs allows to select and edit rectangles with the keyboard as well. Read the GNU Emacs Manual for how to accomplish both tasks. In your case, one may have chosen as well to use a replacing command. If you are curious about the fastest way to edit code in general, then have a look at Vim (remapping the Esc key will be the only glitch). Emacs is more flexible, but it's more of an editor for either text documents or programming languages for which it has dedicated packages. Albeit it can be tweaked to be as efficient as you want in any context, but then such a task is beyond the novice user. Neither editor caters to the casual user. If you wish to use them efficiently, you'll have to commit yourself to read the manuals thoroughly and think about how commands may be composed, and how you can apply such commands in your everyday editing. Otherwise, fellows who use "more user-friendly" editors will eat in your plate and laugh in your face. Happy editing, mate ;-)