From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rafe Kettler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:33:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <02a0d2ef-0b00-4038-b559-690516b4ed0a@a21g2000prj.googlegroups.com> References: <1578157c-17a0-41ea-9420-9330f68b10fe@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298428841 21294 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 02:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:40:41 +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 Feb 23 03:40:37 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps4eb-0001XL-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ps4ea-0006Dn-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a21g2000prj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.75.208.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298428556 32342 127.0.0.1 (23 Feb 2011 02:35:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a21g2000prj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.75.208.159; posting-account=8OO_DwoAAAC6Uk8huv-Jp97CIMB_N2hv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185211 comp.emacs:101079 comp.lang.lisp:299825 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:79369 Archived-At: On Feb 22, 9:06=A0pm, Cthun wrote: > On 22/02/2011 2:47 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > There seems to be a contradiction between those last two paragraphs. > > Saving buffers and finding files are relatively rare operations which > > thus shouldn't be given very easy to press key sequences like C-s and > > C-o. > > Where do you live where software never crashes and the electricity never > goes out? Most of us learn to save very frequently to limit how much > we'll have to do over again if the power goes out or whatever. Emacs is really, really stable. My computer hasn't crashed in the past 6 months, either. The power hasn't gone out in 3 months or so here (eastern US). Save and open are relatively infrequent command relative to others (actual typing, cursor movement, etc.). It's also nice to have a slightly more complex incantation for save so that you don't save anything you might not want to (I know you can undo but if you don't realize what you did you could be in for a problem). Rafe