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So do long time emacs users just remember the keystrokes or have some kind of logic like that for them? A bit of both. There is muscle memory of course, but th
by naner 15y ago
So do long time emacs users just remember the keystrokes or have some kind of logic like that for them?
A bit of both. There is muscle memory of course, but they attempted to lay out the default key bindings logically: Ctrl-k is "kill" and Ctrl-y is "yank", Ctrl-h is the "help" prefix so Ctrl-h k brings up the "help" for a specific "key" binding and Ctrl-h f brings up the "help" for a specific emacs "function". Ctrl-a goes to the beginning of a line (a is at the beginning of the alphabet...) and Ctrl-e goes to the "end" of the line. Alt-a and Alt-e go to the beginning and end of a paragraph. Ctrl-b goes "back" one char at a time, Alt-b goes "back" one word at a time. Ctrl-f and Alt-f go "forward" by one char/word. Etc.