From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:19:47 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <74160b46-e541-436a-a776-c8bd53d6cd55@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <1f28a20e-0c9f-4478-a85c-27ae40ed7fc9@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <4d476218-bd76-4d41-8a12-1428dfba9e9b@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <1226211980.88912@nntp.acecape.com> <7a377b0d-9a02-4cd9-947a-8f04676fad8c@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226482337 30283 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2008 09:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:32:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 10:33:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0C5b-0003Gs-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:32:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0C4T-0001np-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:31:33 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 62 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226463587 21832 127.0.0.1 (12 Nov 2008 04:19:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164343 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:30:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59680 Archived-At: 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84