Re: Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question]

[Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>]

Hi Alan!

Xah Lee wrote:
> > also note, when i did research on emacs command frequency, one
> > surprising result is that a programer types shortcuts more than he
> > actually type letters.

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Not _quite_ true from my afternoon session!

just a afternoon! Still, only 54% are typing letters, barely majority.

can you use it for a few weeks longer for better stat?

> I was into a heavy edebugging session (the utility recorded hardly
> any of these commands; presumably, edebug nullified the hook, somehow),
> and writing a log of this activity at the same time.

interesting.

>  Alan_Mackenzie_command-frequencies.txt

Thanks a lot! Very interesting.

here's my top commands... started maybe few months ago.

 442502   45.61%  self-insert-command
  87717    9.04%  next-line
  63581    6.55%  previous-line
  52433    5.40%  forward-word
  46508    4.79%  backward-word
  17401    1.79%  isearch-printing-char
  17177    1.77%  delete-backward-char
  15277    1.57%  forward-char
  14931    1.54%  backward-kill-word
  14167    1.46%  backward-char
  12900    1.33%  newline
  10074    1.04%  mwheel-scroll
   7561    0.78%  yank
   7385    0.76%  kill-line
   7302    0.75%  save-buffer
   5932    0.61%  close-current-buffer
   5016    0.52%  scroll-up
   4658    0.48%  kill-word
   4593    0.47%  move-beginning-of-line
   4363    0.45%  find-file
   4264    0.44%  isearch-other-meta-char
   4127    0.43%  isearch-repeat-forward
   4097    0.42%  isearch-forward
   4061    0.42%  scroll-down
   3530    0.36%  execute-extended-command
   3445    0.36%  delete-char
   3430    0.35%  set-mark-command
   3307    0.34%  forward-paragraph
   3232    0.33%  undo

  Xah
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