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by gangster_dave 4362 days ago
The influence of Emacs.
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agumonkey 4362 days ago
Slightly realted, I like the fact that rarely I accidentally type complex keystrokes like say C-x C-e C-m, triggering an undesired action. #genius
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GotAnyMegadeth 4362 days ago
I pretty much always accidentally type the Emacs commands first, often in MS Word this means I delete everything then save, rather than just saving, and I end up saving a lot of webpages.
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agumonkey 4362 days ago
Sure. And C-w being `close window or tab` in many GUI I often `cut` my windows away to heaven.

Also I dream of GUI textfields with emacs keybindings. I can't fathom Ctrl-$arrow in Windows for instance. I need my home row.

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jfb 4362 days ago
Get a Macintosh. Emacs key bindings are ubiquitous.
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agumonkey 4362 days ago
I already felt Apple GUIs had something special and I didn't even knew this fact.
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alayne 4362 days ago
It forwards the email to another recipient, it doesn't move the cursor forward a character like Emacs.
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