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In emacs, there is often stuff going on in the background that you may not notice by just watching somebody use it. For example, I could be setting the region,
by tikhonj 14y ago
In emacs, there is often stuff going on in the background that you may not notice by just watching somebody use it. For example, I could be setting the region, copying it and saving it to a register, when it looks like I'm just moving the cursor around a bit. This is true for quite a bit of the commands I use often. I also don't like having too much visual feedback, so it's even harder for others to follow what I'm doing.
Also, one you get used to the commands, it's often easier to use too many without thinking rather than planning out an efficient way to do something.
- evincarofautumn 14y agoThere’s a tradeoff involved. Sometimes the effort of planning is greater than that of doing it by hand. Usually I start a repetitive task, notice the repetition, then finish it off in a better way only if it’s less work than going on manually. There’s perhaps more value in noticing longer trends; for example, making a keybinding to duplicate the current line when you find yourself saying C-{a k k y y} more than is healthy.
- mapleoin 14y agoYou could also just do C-{a e Space y} ;)
- evincarofautumn 14y agoI’m not sure what you mean.
- mapleoin 14y agoSorry, should've been C-{a Space e w y}. Go to beginning of line, set mark, go to end of line, copy, paste.
- evincarofautumn 14y agoI want to duplicate the current line, not just put it in the killring.
- antihero 14y agoIn ST2: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V (without anything selected).