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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 12 Mar 1997 16:08:34 GMT
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Matt Kirsch <matt2@ctg.com> wrote:

> The same can be said of emacs. Who has time to remember all of those 
> CONTROL key sequences?

Nobody.  That's what an online help and command completion are for.
Also, you can forget at least a third of all the control sequences
when you're using an X11 display.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j